Edited and introduced by two leading historians of the period, this volume tells the inside story of Home Intelligence and why it proved so controversial in Whitehall, the complete and unabridged sequence of reports provide us with a unique and extraordinary window into the mindset of the British during a momentous period in their history.

• Acknowledgments


• Paul Addison and Jeremy A. Crang, 'Home Intelligence, the Blitz and the British'


• I. September-December 1940


• II. January-March 1941


• III. April-June 1941


• Abbreviations


• Glossary


• Index

Paul Addison was a historian of twentieth century Britain who taught at the University of Edinburgh from 1967 to 2005. He was Director of the Centre for Second World War Studies at Edinburgh from 1996 to 2005 and a Visiting Fellow of All Souls from 1990-1991.
Jeremy A. Crang is a historian of twentieth-century Britain who has taught at the University of Edinburgh since 1993. He was Assistant Director of the Centre for Second World War Studies at Edinburgh from 1996 to 2005 and has held visiting fellowships at Churchill College, Cambridge (2006 and 2010) and Pembroke College, Oxford (2014).