Cloak Without Dagger by Sir Percy Sillitoe KBE Dir Gen of MI5 Hardcover Book

Title: Cloak Without Dagger by Sir Percy Sillitoe KBE Dir Gen of MI5 Hardcover Book.
Author: Sir Percy Sillitoe, K.B.E.
Foreword By: The Rt. Hon Clement Attlee
Type: Autobiography Espionage Non-Fiction.
Edition: Third Edition May 1955.
Publisher: Cassell & Company Ltd, London.
Year First Published: 1955.
Format: Hardcover Book with Dust jacket (with Repairs) and photographs.
Printed By: The Trinity Press Worcester and London.
Page Count: 206 pages.
Width: 14.0cm
Height: 20.0cm
Thickness: 2.3cm
Info: Born in London, Sillitoe was educated at St Paul's Cathedral School (then St Paul's Cathedral Choir School).[1] By 1908, he had become a Trooper in the British South Africa Police and, in 1911, transferred to the Northern Rhodesia Police. During the First World War he served in the East African campaign with the Northern Rhodesia Police. 
After serving as a political officer in Tanganyika until 1920, he returned to England with his family.
In 1923 he was appointed Chief Constable of Chesterfield, a position he held for the next two years. After a further year as Chief Constable of the East Riding of Yorkshire in 1925, he became in 1926 the Chief Constable of Sheffield, where he was credited with authorising "reasonable force" to break the hold of criminal gangs.
He was Chief Constable of City of Glasgow Police from 1931 to 1943, when he was credited with breaking the power of the notorious Glasgow razor gangs, made infamous in the novel No Mean City. During his time as chief constable of Glasgow, he was also credited with the introduction of wireless radios allowing communication between headquarters and vehicles (which had previously relied completely upon the use of police boxes), use of civilians in police-related roles, and the introduction of compulsory retirement after 30 years service. 
Sillitoe went on to head MI5. His reputation was damaged by the 1951 defection to the Soviet Union of the spies Guy Burgess and Donald Duart Maclean, and by the investigation afterwards, which showed that MI5 had been unaware and slow to act.
Condition: Good, the binding is tight, no loose pages. Dustjacket has repairs. Some foxing and tanning and discolouration on front and rear papers, the pages internally are good and clean. Book shop stamp in front
Price: R 95.00 Inc Vat.