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The secret war : spies, ciphers, and guerrillas 1939-1945 / Max Hastings.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062259271
- ISBN: 006225927X
- ISBN: 0062441566
- ISBN: 9780062441560
- Physical Description: xxvii, 610 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "First published in a different form in the United Kingdom in 2015"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-585) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Orford Social Library | 638.5 | 34190000111764 | Adult nonfiction - Front room | Available | - |
