An edition of The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerillas 1939-45 (2015)

The secret war

spies, ciphers, and guerrillas, 1939-1945

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An edition of The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerillas 1939-45 (2015)

The secret war

spies, ciphers, and guerrillas, 1939-1945

First U.S. edition.

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  • 7 Want to read
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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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Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Pages
610

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Subjects
Cryptography, Electronic intelligence, Intelligence service, Secret service, Underground movements, World War, 1939-1945, Espionage, History, World war, 1939-1945, underground movements, World war, 1939-1945, cryptography, World war, 1939-1945, secret service, Great britain, history, 20th century, nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2016-05-29, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, War Underground movements, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924
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Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England)
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20th century

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The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerillas 1939-45
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Reprint. First published as: The secret war : spies, codes and guerrillas 1939-45. London : William Collins, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-585) and index.

Classifications

Library of Congress
D810.S7 H365 2016, D810.S7H365 2016

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Pagination
xxvii, 610 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
610

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OL27208195M
ISBN 10
006225927X
ISBN 13
9780062259271
OCLC/WorldCat
968161461, 913135714

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