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SPIES OF THE KAISER
German Covert Operations in Great Britain during the First World War Era
Thomas Boghardt’s is the first scholarly account of the activities of the German naval intelligence agency (‘N’) before and during the First World War. Using hitherto untapped sources, Boghardt reveals the true nature and extent of the ‘spy menace’ that aroused such anxiety in Britain before 1914. As Boghardt brilliantly demonstrates, ‘N’ was a much less serious threat than the British authorities and public feared. It was not MI5 that thwarted the German spies, but the Germans’ own limitations in the field of modern espionage.
NIALL FERGUSON, Professor of History, Jesus College, University of Oxford.
In an innovative and original work, Thomas Boghardt opens a window onto the German naval intelligence in its infancy. This is the other side of Erskine Childers’ celebrated 1903 novel about German spies in Britain, Riddle of the Sands. In the process, Boghardt demonstrates the limitations of an intelligence service condemned to collect information in a political and strategic vacuum.
DOUGLAS PORCH, Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School.
'Spies of the Kaiser' is a superbly organized and detailed account of the German and British intelligence services before and during World War I. In a riveting historical analysis, based on secret archival material in Germany and Great Britain first made available to researchers in the 1990s, Dr. Boghardt shows how each service formed an exaggerated image of its own effectiveness. This is an extraordinarily revealing work with important lessons for today’s intelligence professionals and a must-read for anyone interested in the origins of modern intelligence.
PETER EARNEST, Executive Director of the International Spy Museum, and former Senior CIA Clandestine Service Officer.
Based on meticulous research in British and German archives, Boghardt has written a masterful flesh and blood study of the Kaiser’s secret war against Britain. This is a splendid achievement in the history of intelligence.
REINHARD R. DOERRIES, Professor Emeritus, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
In 'Spies of the Kaiser', Thomas Boghardt skillfully explodes myths about Imperial German subversion while introducing the reader to a circus of actual and would-be spies, saboteurs and agents provocateurs whose activities influenced modern Anglo-American counterespionage and counterterrorism. This book is important reading for anyone interested in how and why intelligence services often fail to distinguish between real and imagined threats.
TIMOTHY NAFTALI, Associate Professor, University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.
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