The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939–1945. Max Hastings

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СКАЧАТЬ 1 THE SHARP END

       2 THE BRAIN

       3 AT SEA

       8 ‘Mars’: The Bloodiest Deception

       1 GEHLEN

       2 AGENT ‘MAX’

       9 The Orchestra’s Last Concert

       10 Guerrilla

       1 RESISTERS AND RAIDERS

       2 SOE

       11 Hoover’s G-Men, Donovan’s Wild Men

       1 ADVENTURERS

       2 IVORY TOWERS

       3 ALLEN DULLES: TALKING TO GERMANS

       12 Russia’s Partisans: Terrorising Both Sides

       13 Islands in the Storm

       1 THE ABWEHR’S IRISH JIG

       2 NO MAN’S LAND

       14 A Little Help from Their Friends

       1 ‘IT STINKS, BUT SOMEBODY HAS TO DO IT’

       2 AMERICAN TRAITORS

       15 The Knowledge Factories

       1 AGENTS

       2 THE JEWEL OF SOURCES

       3 PRODUCTION LINES

       4 INFERNAL MACHINES

       16 ‘Blunderhead’: The English Patient

       17 Eclipse of the Abwehr

       1 HITLER’S BLETCHLEYS

       2 ‘CICERO’

       3 THE FANTASISTS

       4 THE ‘GOOD’ NAZI

       18 Battlefields

       1 WIELDING THE ULTRA WAND

       2 SUICIDE SPIES

       3 TARNISHED TRIUMPH

       19 Black Widows, Few White Knights

       1 FIGHTING JAPAN

       2 FIGHTING EACH OTHER

       3 THE ENEMY: GROPING IN THE DARK

       20 ‘Enormoz’

       21 Decoding Victory

      

      

       Picture Section

       Acknowledgements

       Notes and Sources

       Bibliography

       Index

       Also by Max Hastings

       About the Publisher

Introduction

      This is a book about some of the most fascinating people who participated in the Second World War. Soldiers, sailors, airmen, civilians had vastly diverse experiences, forged by fire, geography, economics and ideology. Those who killed each other were the most conspicuous, but in many ways the least interesting: outcomes were also profoundly influenced by a host of men and women who never fired a shot. While even in Russia months could elapse between big battles, all the participants waged an unceasing secret war – a struggle for knowledge of the enemy to empower their armies, navies and air forces, through espionage and codebreaking. Lt. Gen. Albert Praun, the Wehrmacht’s last signals chief, wrote afterwards of the latter: ‘All aspects of this modern “cold war of the air waves” were carried on constantly even when the guns were silent.’ The Allies also launched guerrilla and terrorist campaigns wherever in Axis-occupied territories they had means to do so: covert operations assumed an unprecedented importance.

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