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Nicholas Everitt. British Secret Service During the Great War
British Secret Service During the Great War
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I WAR AND THE INTRODUCING OF JIM
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CHAPTER II SECRET SERVICE ORGANISATIONS, COMPARISONS, AND INCIDENTALS
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CHAPTER III INITIATION TO ACTIVE WORK
CHAPTER IV INTERCOMMUNICATING WITH TEMPORARY CODES AND INCIDENTS
CHAPTER V LOCATING GERMAN MINE-LAYERS
CHAPTER VI DEPOSING A RIVAL
CHAPTER VII FIGHTING GERMAN AGENTS WITH FAKED WEAPONS
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CHAPTER VIII ESCAPING FROM THE CLUTCHES OF A VERY CLEVER LADY
CHAPTER IX WILD-FOWLING EXTRAORDINARY AND TRAWLING FOR SUBMARINES IN NEUTRAL WATERS
CHAPTER X THE MYSTERIOUS HARBOUR
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CHAPTER XI MAD GAMBLING AND A BIG BRIBE
CHAPTER XII SHADOWED BY POLICE
CHAPTER XIII DODGING FRONTIER GUARDS AND SEARCHING FOR ONE'S SELF
CHAPTER XIV AVOIDING COLD MURDER
CHAPTER XV ESCAPING FROM A SUBMARINE
CHAPTER XVI THE CASEMENT AFFAIR
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CHAPTER XVII PERTAINING TO MYSTERY SHIPS
CHAPTER XVIII THE SINKING OF THE "LUSITANIA" BY GERMAN TREACHERY
CHAPTER XIX MINISTERIAL, DIPLOMATIC, AND CONSULAR FAILINGS
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CHAPTER XX THE SHAM BLOCKADE
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Nicholas Everitt
Published by Good Press, 2021
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It was common knowledge to the Secret Service agents of all nations that the Liberal-Radical Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was tottering to a fall. Its popularity with the masses had waned; its hypocrisy with the middle classes had become a byword; its disloyalty to the Empire with the upper classes had become revolting; its days had become numbered. The German War party saw this and realised the fact better than the English. It knew that it was of vital importance to its world-power dream to make war only when a Liberal, Radical, and Socialist party was in office in England; it would be courting disaster to do so if a Unionist Government were in power.
Yea, verily, the Kaiser believed that the harvest of his sowing was ready for the garnering.
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