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Hastings, Max, author.

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

First U.S. edition.

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

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

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.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Electronic intelligence.

Intelligence service -- History -- 20th century.

Espionage -- History -- 20th century.

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

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

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

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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