The secret war : spies, ciphers, and guerrillas 1939-1945
2016
Book
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.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780062441560
- 9780062259271
- 0062441566
- 006225927X
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Description: xxvii, 610 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Notes:
- "First published in a different form in the United Kingdom in 2015"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-585) and index.
Contents:
- 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.
Control Number: 1690221
Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]Subjects:
- Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England) -- History.
- Espionage -- History -- 20th century.
- Intelligence service -- History -- 20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Electronic intelligence.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements.