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This anthology contains 50 stories, extracted from other books. Some of them, for example those of Baroness Carla Jenssen and Victor K. Kaledin, have to be taken with a large pinch of salt, which isn’t necessarily to say that they aren’t based on fact. Truth is stranger than fiction, after all.

The list of authors includes Lord Baden-Powell, Sir Basil Thompson (One time head of Special Branch), Hector C. Bywater (MI6’s highest paid agent during World War 1), Dr Aarmgard Karl Graves (German agent, identified by MO5 (MI5) and arrested in August 1914), Captain George A. Hill (served with MI1c (SIS) in Russia during the First World War, later with SOE during World War Two) and many others. Their stories collectively cover many different aspects of intelligence work in the period before, during and after the First World war, and include a wealth of detail that isn’t to be found in modern works such as the recently published MI6; The History of the Secret Intelligence Service by Keith Jeffery, valuable as that book is. Fifty Amazing Secret Service Dramas also has 16 fine pen and ink illustrations. Someone should really re-print this fascinating volume.