The secret war
spies ciphers and guerrillas 1939-1945
Book - 2016
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.
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New York, NY :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Hastings, Max, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The secret war : |b spies, ciphers, and guerrillas, 1939-1945 / |c Max Hastings. |
| 250 | |a First U.S. edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, NY : |b Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, |c [2016] | |
| 300 | |a xxvi, 610 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations ; |c 24 cm | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
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| 338 | |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-585) and index. | ||
| 500 | |a "First published in a different form in the United Kingdom in 2015." -- copyright page | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |x Secret service. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |x Underground movements. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |x Cryptography. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |x Electronic intelligence. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Intelligence service |x History |y 20th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Espionage |x History |y 20th century. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England) |x History. | |
| 775 | 0 | 8 | |i Reproduction of (manifestation): |a Hastings, Max. |t Secret war |d London : William Collins, 2015 |z 9780007503742 |
| 998 | |a 2016.05.03 | ||
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