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The secret war : spies, ciphers, and guerrillas, 1939-1945 / Max Hastings. by Hastings, Max. author. Subjects 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. Publisher Info:  New York, NY : Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016] Edition:  First U.S. edition. Description:  xxvi, 610 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm RDA Types:  text still image unmediated volume ISBN:  9780062259271 006225927X 0062441566 9780062441560 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. Registers and raiders ; SOE -- Hoover's G-men, Donovan's wild men. Adventurers ; Ivory towers ; Allen Dulles: talking to Germany -- 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. Format Book:  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, Germany, and Japan influenced the course of the war and its final outcome. No. of Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Marion Public Library Top Floor 940.5485 HAS Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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