title: Imperial Secrets: Remapping the Mind of Empire
author: Col. Patrick Kelley
description: <DIV><p class="MsoNormal">Patrick Kelley is a U.S. Army Foreign Area Officer specializing in South Asia, a career path particularly suited to encouraging a distinctive interweaving&#160;of academic, intelligence and military issues.
zlib_text: Pra is e f o r Empire of Secrets:
  ‘Both path-breaking and a very good read. Calder Walton reveals for the
  first time the full role of British Intelligence in the end of the largest empire
  in world history’
  PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, author of Defence of the Realm: The
  Authorised History of MI5
  ‘People who believe there’s not much left to learn about the British Empire
  should read this book. Calder Walton has sculpted a fascinating study of
  where spycraft touched palm and pine’
  PROFESSOR PETER HENNESSY, author of The Secret State
  ‘Comprehensive and perceptive … It is one of those books that no student
  of the subject can ignore’
  Spectator
  ‘Empire of Secrets is an important addition to the literature on
  decolonisation. It shines new light into the murky world of intelligence that
  underpinned the formalities of departure, the anthems and flag-lowering
  ceremonies, the wheeling parades and high-flown sentiments of
  nationalism’
  Financial Times
  ‘An entertaining and welcome demystification o