| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
xxvii, 610 pages, [32] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [559]-585) and index. |
| Note |
"First published in a different form in the United Kingdom in 2015"--Title page verso. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Electronic intelligence.
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Intelligence service -- History -- 20th century.
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Espionage -- History -- 20th century.
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Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England) -- History.
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World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
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Cryptography. (OCoLC)fst00884552
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Electronic intelligence. (OCoLC)fst00907316
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Espionage. (OCoLC)fst00915379
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Intelligence service. (OCoLC)fst00975848
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Secret service. (OCoLC)fst01110661
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Underground movements, War. (OCoLC)fst01355184
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England -- Milton Keynes -- Bletchley Park.
(OCoLC)fst01711859
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9780062259271 (hc.) |
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006225927X (hc.) |
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0062441566 |
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9780062441560 |
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