The secret war : spies, ciphers, and guerrillas 1939-1945 / Max Hastings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hastings, Max, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Secret service.

World War, 1939-1945.

Secret service.

World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements.

War--Underground movements.

World War, 1939-1945--Cryptography.

Cryptography.

World War, 1939-1945--Electronic intelligence.

Electronic intelligence.

Intelligence service--History--20th century.

Intelligence service.

History.

Espionage--History--20th century.

Espionage.

Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England)--History.

Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England).

England--Milton Keynes--Bletchley Park.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 610 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]

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.

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. Resisters and raiders ; SOE

Hoover's G-men, Donovan's wild men. Adventurers ; Ivory towers ; Allen Dulles: talking to Germans

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.

Notes:

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

"First published in a different form in the United Kingdom in 2015"--Title page verso.

Other Edition:

Reproduction of: 9780007503742 Hastings, Max. London : William Collins, 2015

ISBN:

9780062259271

006225927X

0062441566

9780062441560

OCLC:

913135714