The Puppet Masters: Spies, Traitors and the Real Forces Behind World Events

The secret world of military intelligence—written by a senior intelligence officer

John Hughes-Wilson is a former intelligence officer, and is ideally placed to reveal the secret history of military intelligence. He takes us "behind the scenes" of military and political events from Elizabeth I to Osama bin Laden and the crisis in the Middle East. The book is divided into three parts. The first investigates some famous disasters when lack of intelligence was the decisive factor, e.g. Gallip...