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Dramatic accounts of covert activities and espionage during World War II read like a spy novel.
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Sinister Touches: The Secret War Against Hitler
1982, Dial Press
Hardcover
in English
0803779038 9780803779037
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It was a war of lonely individuals against the mighty war machine ... of cunning duplicity and deception, a war which never made the headlines and of which, until very recently, almost nothing was known.
While the great land, sea, and air battles of World War II raged, both sides were also waging another, perhaps more crucial, war. the soldiers who risked their lives were spies, scientists, assassins. And it was certain that whoever won this other "secret" war would ultimately claim victory throughout the world.
In his dramatic account Robert Goldston depicts the covert operations and strategies of World War II: the brilliant cracking of the Nazi diplomatic and military codes; the espionage and "executions" carried out in New York, Washington, and other American cities; the tricks that outwitted such Nazi spies as the infamous "Cicero"; the strategems used to mislead Hitler about Allied military plans; the hair-raising race for atomic power; and the courageous acts of hundreds of anonymous individuals who sacrificed their lives to win an Allied victory.
Compelling and often shocking, Sinister Touches penetrates the veils of secrecy that have long hidden some of the most important activities of World War II.
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