British Intelligence in the Second World War provides the only reliable account yet published of the key role played by British Intelligence in Allied strategy & operations in the Second World War. No such account could have been written without the unrestricted access that was afforded to Professor Hinsley & his colleagues to the full range of British government intelligence records & to political & military archives of the war & the inter-war years. This volume, an abridgement of Professor Hinsley's widely acclaimed five-volume history of British Intelligence, covers in fascinating detail the use of intelligence in all aspects of the war in Europe.