Red List: MI5 and British Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century Audiobook by David Caute

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ID: 617269
Title: Red List: MI5 and British Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century
Author: David Caute
Narrator: Dennis Kleinman
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14:30:18
Language: English
Release date: 05-10-22
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: History, Non-Fiction, Europe, Global Politics, Social Science

Summary:
A gripping history of the Security Service and its covert surveillance on British writers and intellectuals in the twentieth century
In the popular imagination, MI5or the Security Serviceis know chiefly as the branch of the British state responsible for chasing down those who pose a threat to the countrys national security, from Nazi fifth columnists during the Second World War to Soviet spies during the Cold War and todays domestic extremists. Yet, aided by the release of official documents to the National Archives, David Caute argues in this radical and revelatory history of the Security Service that suspicion often fell on those who posed no threat to national security. Instead, this other history of MI5, ignored in official accounts, was often fueled by the political prejudices of MI5s personnel and involved a huge program of surveillance against anyone who dared question the status quo.
Caute, a prominent historian and expert on the history of the Cold War, tells the story of the massive state operation to track the activities of a range of journalists, academics, scientists, filmmakers, writers, and others who, during the twentieth century, the Security Service perceived as a threat to the national interest. Those who were tracked include such prominent figures as Kingsley Amis, George Orwell, Doris Lessing, John Berger, Benjamin Britten, Eric Hobsbawm, Michael Foot, Harriet Harman, and others.

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