Large print book

The secret war : spies, ciphers, and guerrillas, 1939-1945

Call Number

  • LARGE TYPE 940.5485 H358 (OSH)

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Edition

First HarperLuxe Large Print edition.

Publication Information

New York : Harperluxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]

Physical Description

xliv, 1148 pages (large print), 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

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.

Notes

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

"Larger print"--Page 4 of cover.

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.

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