The secret war spies, ciphers, and guerrillas 1939-1945
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, Germany, and Japan influenced the course of the war and its final outcome.
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New York, NY :
Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2016]
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| 100 | 1 | |a Hastings, Max, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The secret war : |b spies, ciphers, and guerrillas 1939-1945 / |c Max Hastings. |
| 250 | |a First U.S. edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, NY : |b Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, |c [2016] | |
| 300 | |a xxvii, 610 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations, portraits ; |c 24 cm | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-585) and index. | ||
| 500 | |a "First published in a different form in the United Kingdom in 2015"--Title page verso. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Before the deluge. Seekers after truth ; The British: gentlemen and players ; The Russians: temples of espionage -- The storm breaks. The "fiction flood" ; Shadowing Canaris -- Miracles take a little longer: Bletchley. "Tips" and "cillis" ; Flirting with America -- The dogs that barked. "Lucy's" people ; Sorge's warnings ; The orchestra plays ; The deaf man in the Kremlin -- Divine winds. Mrs Ferguson's tea set ; The Japanese ; The man who won Midway -- Muddling and groping: the Russians at war. Centre mobilises ; The end of Sorge ; The second source ; Gourevitch takes a train -- Britain's secret war machine. The sharp end ; The brain ; At sea -- 'Mars': the bloodiest deception. Gehlen ; "Agent Max" -- The orchestra's last concert -- Guerrilla. Resisters and raiders ; SOE -- Hoover's G-men, Donovan's wild men. Adventurers ; Ivory towers ; Allen Dulles: talking to Germans -- Russia's partisans: terrorising both sides -- Islands in the storm. The Abwehr's Irish jig ; No man's land -- A little help from their friends. "It stinks, but somebody has to do it" ; American traitors -- The knowledge factories. Agents ; The jewel of sources ; Production lines ; Infernal machines -- 'Blunderhead': the English patient -- Eclipse of the Abwehr. Hitler's Bletchleys ; "Cicero" ; The fantasists ; The "good" Nazi -- Battlefields. Wielding the Ultra wand ; Suicide spies ; Tarnished triumph -- Black widows, few white knights. Fighting Japan ; Fighting each other ; The enemy: groping in the dark -- 'Enormoz' -- Decoding victory. | |
| 520 | |a 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, Germany, and Japan influenced the course of the war and its final outcome. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a World war, 1939-1945 |x Secret service. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |x Underground movements. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |x Cryptography. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |x Electronic intelligence. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Intelligence service |x History |y 20th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Espionage |x History |y 20th century. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England) |x History. | |
| 775 | 0 | 8 | |i Reproduction of (manifestation): |a Hastings, Max. |t Secret war |d London : William Collins, 2015 |z 9780007503742 |
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