Richard Aldrich

Richard James Aldrich (born 7 December 1961) is a British political scientist and a historian of espionage who has written intensively about intelligence and security communities. Life Since September 2007, he has been a professor of International Security at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick. He was a professor at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham and was co-editor of the journal Intelligence and National Security for eight years. In 1990 Aldrich gained his PhD from Corpus Christie College, University of Cambridge. Works Monographs The Black Door Lib/E: Spies, Secret Intelligence, and British Prime Ministers (William the 4th, 2020) GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain's Most Secret Intelligence Agency (HarperPress, 2010) Intelligence and the War against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service (Cambridge University Press, 2008) The Faraway War: Personal Diaries of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific (Transworld Publishers Limited, 2006) Witness To War: Diaries Of The Second World War In Europe And The Middle East (Doubleday, 2004) The Hidden Hand: Britain, America, and Cold War Secret Intelligence (John Murray Press, 2001) Intelligence and the War Against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service (Cambridge University Press, 2000) Espionage, Security and Intelligence in Britain, 1945-1970 (Manchester University Press, 1998) The Key to the South: Britain, the United States, and Thailand During the Approach of the Pacific War, 1929-1942 (Oxford University Press, 1993) British Intelligence, Strategy and the Cold War, 1945-51(Taylor & Francis, 1992)