Christopher Andrew

Christopher Andrew (born July 23, 1941 ) is a British historian , professor at Cambridge University and textbook author .

In Cambridge he heads the British Intelligence Study Group , which systematically deals with the subject of secret services. Internationally, even outside the specialist public, he became known for his fundamental publications on the former Soviet secret service KGB , which he wrote together with KGB defectors Oleg Gordievsky and Vasily Mitrochin . His close and trusting relationships with the British secret services meant that he was commissioned to write the official history of MI5 with access to the archives .

Works

• Christopher Andrew: Secret Service. The Making of the British Intelligence Community , 1986, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, ISBN 978-0340404300
• Christopher Andrew, Oleg Gordievsky: KGB: The Inside Story , 1990, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, ISBN 978-0340485613
• Christopher Andrew, Oleg Gordievsky: More Instructions from the Center: Top Secret Files on KGB Global Operations 1975-1985 , 1992, Routledge, ISBN 978-0714634753
• Christopher Andrew, Oleg Gordievsky: Comrade Kryuchkov's Instructions: Top Secret Files on KGB Foreign Operations , 1975–1985; 1994, Stanford University Press, ISBN 978-0804722285
• Christopher Andrew: For the President's Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush , 1995, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, ISBN 978-0060170370
• Christopher Andrew, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones: Eternal Vigilance ?: 50 years of the CIA (Studies in Intelligence), 1997, Routledge, ISBN 978-0714643601
• Christopher Andrew: The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB , 1999, Basic Books, ISBN 978-0465003105
• Christopher Andrew, Vasili Mitrokhin: The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West , 2000, Penguin, ISBN 978-0140284874
• Christopher Andrew, Richard J. Aldrich, Wesley K. Wark (Editors): Secret Intelligence: A Reader , 2008, Routledge, ISBN 978-0415420242

German translations

• Christopher Andrew, Oleg Gordievsky: KGB. The history of his foreign operations from Lenin to Gorbachev , C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-570-06264-3
• Christopher Andrew, Wassili Mitrochin: The Black Book of the KGB. Moscow's fight against the west . Propylaeen Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3549055889
• Christopher Andrew, Vasily Mitrochin: The Black Book of the KGB 2. Moscow's Secret Operations in the Cold War . Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3549072910
• Christopher Andrew: MI-5. The real story of the British Secret Service . List Taschenbuch, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-548-61028-3

Web links

• Cambridge University, Corpus Christi College: Professor Christopher Andrew (m1959) unveils history of MI5
• Book TV: Christopher Andrew, "Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5" (Youtube-Video)