Spies in Uniform: British Military and Naval Intelligence on the Eve of the First World War

by Matthew S. Seligmann

Why did the British government declare war on Germany in August 1914? Was it because Germany posed a threat to British national security? Today many prominent historians would argue that this was not the case and that a million British citizens died needlessly for a misguided cause.

This book counters such revisionist arguments. Matthew Seligmann disputes the suggestion that the British government either got its facts wrong about the German...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199261504
• ISBN13: 9780199261505
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"