The secret war
Subtitle: spies, ciphers, and guerrillas, 1939-1945
By: Max Hastings
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 610
ISBN-13: 9780062259271
Subjects: Cryptography; Electronic intelligence; Intelligence service; Secret service; Underground movements; World War, 1939-1945; Espionage; History
Description: 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: Reprint. First published as: The secret war : spies, codes and guerrillas 1939-45. London : William Collins, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-585) and index.
Table of contents: title: Before the Deluge; title: The Storm Breaks; title: Miracles Take a Little Longer: Bletchley; title: The Dogs That Barked; title: Divine Winds; title: Muddling and Groping: The Russians at War; title: Britain's Secret War Machine; title: 'Mars': The Bloodiest Deception; title: The Orchestra's Last Concert; title: Guerrilla; title: Hoover's G-Men, Donovan's Wild Men; title: Russia's Partisans: Terrorising Both Sides; title: Islands in the Storm; title: A Little Help from Their Friends; title: The Knowledge Factories; title: 'Blunderhead': The English Patient; title: Eclipse of the Abwehr; title: Battlefields; title: Black Widows, Few White Knights; title: 'Enormoz'; title: Decoding Victory.