- 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.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Hastings, Max, author.
- Published
- New York, NY : Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]
©2016
- Locale
- Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England)
- Edition
- First U.S. edition
- Contents
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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
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"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. 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.
