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Author:

Hastings, Max, author.

Title:

The secret war : spies, ciphers, and guerrillas, 1939-1945 / Max Hastings.

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Publisher:

Harperan imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xxvii, 610 pages, 32 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, photographs ; 24 cm.

Subject:

World War, 1939-1945--Secret service.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements.
World War, 1939-1945--Cryptography.
World War, 1939-1945--Electronic intelligence.
Intelligence service--History--20th century.
Espionage--History--20th century.
Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England)--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Before the Deluge -- The Storm Breaks -- Miracles Take a Little Longer: Bletchley -- The Dogs That Barked -- Divine Winds -- Muddling and Groping: The Russians at War -- Britain's Secret War Machine -- 'Mars': The Bloodiest Deception -- The Orchestra's Last Concert -- Guerrilla -- Hoover's G-Men, Donovan's Wild Men -- Russia's Partisans: Terrorising Both Sides -- Islands in the Storm -- A Little Help from Their Friends -- The Knowledge Factories -- 'Blunderhead': The English Patient -- Eclipse of the Abwehr -- Battlefields -- Black Widows, Few White Knights -- 'Enormoz' -- Decoding Victory.

Summary:

An examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II--intelligence--shows how espionage successes and failures by the United States, Britain, Russia, Gemany, and Japan influenced the course of the war and its final outcome.

ISBN:

006225927X
9780062259271

LCCN:

bl2016012661

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