One of the books I’m reading right now is the one pictured above (warning: artist recreation — not the actual book), and it’s filled with lots of wonderful nuggets, like —
Maurice (later Lord) Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defense, who in December 1916 became Britain’s first (and so far longest-serving) cabinet secretary, later recalled, while carrying out a review of British intelligence in 1940: ‘During the last war I myself was driving an automobile bought by the MI5 and lived on a salary paid by the Germans for … imaginary services.’
