Product Description
A first paperback edition, 1977 , in which Tony Bunyan examines the history, development and role of the police and the intelligence agencies in the UK . Cover the ( then) standard police organisations, the Special Branch, MI5, surveillance techniques, notable campaigns , the reaction of the state to popular movements , terrorism and external challenges - events as diverse as the Russian Revolution, the Women's Suffrage Movement, CND and the IRA - and how the state apparatus, overt and expecially covert, responded to events.
Heavy sun fade to spine, otherwise unmarked. striking cover art by Cliff Harper, internally unmarked, binding tight. Originally publinshed in 1976, this edition was revised slightly for first paperback printing.