Richard J. Aldrich
Richard James Aldrich 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 Christi College, University of Cambridge.Works
Monographs
- The Black Door Lib/E: Spies, Secret Intelligence, and British Prime Ministers
- GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain's Most Secret Intelligence Agency
- Intelligence and the War against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service
- The Faraway War: Personal Diaries of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific
- Witness To War: Diaries Of The Second World War In Europe And The Middle East
- The Hidden Hand: Britain, America, and Cold War Secret Intelligence
- Intelligence and the War Against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service
- Espionage, Security and Intelligence in Britain, 1945-1970
- The Key to the South: Britain, the United States, and Thailand During the Approach of the Pacific War, 1929-1942
- ''British Intelligence, Strategy and the Cold War, 1945-51''
Co-authored books
- The Secret Royals: Spying and the Crown, from Victoria to Diana with Rory Cormac
- Secret Intelligence: A Reader with Christopher Andrew and Wesley K. Wark
- Spying on the World: The Declassified Documents of the Joint Intelligence Committee, 1936-2013 with Rory Cormac and Michael S. Goodman
- The Clandestine Cold War in Asia, 1945-65: Western Intelligence, Propaganda and Special Operations with Ming-Yeh Rawnsley and Gary D. Rawnsley
- Intelligence, Defence and Diplomacy: British Policy in the Post-War World with Michael F. Hopkins