Table of Contents

Foreword -
Introduction
The Committee
The Mutinies
The Agreement
The Fall
The Letter
The Strike
The Raids
Conclusion
Appendix I: Biographies
Bibliography

Reviews

[A] fascinating and valuable account.
*AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW*

A fascinating and wonderfully researched book.
*REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA*

Madeira's study is an outstanding example of what can be achieved by piecing together intelligence and diplomatic history, offering at last the 'missing dimension' to shed light on many political controversies.
*JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES*

[A]n impressively researched and insightful history that highlights the centrality of the geopolitical rivalry between Britain and Russia -- or, perhaps more accurately, the Soviet Union -- and the importance of understanding the intelligence wars of the early twentieth century.
*H-NET Reviews*

Excellent . . . a pioneering work [that] should also appeal to anyone interested in modern politics, international relations and, as strange as it may sound, in Russia's present-day secret intelligence operations in Britain.
*THE SPECTATOR*

Intelligence historians have been so bedazzled by the Cambridge Five that we have neglected who and what came before. Victor Madeira's fascinating study takes us into the first great skirmishes of the long intelligence war between the UK and the Soviet Union, and he does not shrink from applying lessons to today's version of the duel.
*PETER HENNESSY, Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History, Queen Mary, University of London.*

Exciting and essential reading -- not only for intelligence specialists -- but for everyone interested in the secret battle between the British and Soviet 'superpowers' during the interwar period.
*RICHARD J. ALDRICH, Professor of International Security, University of Warwick*

An impressive and sharply perceptive account of a key period in British and Soviet intelligence history.
*GILL BENNETT, OBE, MA, Chief Historian, Foreign & Commonwealth Office (1995-2005)*

This is history at its best -- objective, penetrating analysis extremely well written, covering an important but neglected issue, and with lessons amazingly relevant to today.
*CHRIS DONNELLY, CMG, TD, Director, The Institute for Statecraft*