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Britain's Secret War Michael Smith

Britain's Secret War By Michael Smith

Britain's Secret War by Michael Smith


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Summary

Britain's Secret War tells the astonishing story of how Britain's spies, boffins and special operations teams helped to win the Second World War.

Britain's Secret War Summary

Britain's Secret War by Michael Smith

Britain's Secret War tells the astonishing story of how Britain's spies, boffins and special operations teams helped to win the Second World War. The work of the Bletchley Park codebreakers in breaking the German Enigma cipher is estimated to have cut the length of the war by around two years, saving countless lives, while the Double Cross system, in which German secret agents were turned by the British to feed their Nazi agent-runners with false information, ensured the success of the D-Day landings. The Secret War not only reveals new details about these remarkable operations but also tells the real story of how MI6 turned the disaster of lost networks across Europe into triumph. The stories range from extraordinary courage to the bizarre with even astrologers and a stage magician brought in to help get intelligence and allied aircrew out of Nazi-occupied Europe. Intelligence historian Michael Smith describes the work of all the participants in the Secret War, revealing a host of new heroes, and heroines, along the way.

About Michael Smith

Michael Smith is a former intelligence officer, award-winning journalist, and an expert on all aspects of British Secret War. He writes on defence for The Sunday Times and has written many books including the bestsellers Station X and The Spying Game.

Table of Contents

Introduction; MI6; Bletchley Park; MI5; Special Operations Executive; Intelligence Services of the Governments-in-Exile - Poland, Norway and Czechoslovakia; Naval Intelligence; Air Intelligence; Intelligence in Occupied Europe; SOE Operations in Occupied Europe; North African Campaign; Intelligence in the Middle East; The Balkans; Churchill's Obsession with Intelligence; SOE Operations in the Middle East; The Invasion of North Africa and Southern Europe; Battle of the Atlantic; US Intelligence - working with Bletchley, MI6 and SOE; Women in the Secret War; MI19 - The Interrogation of German Prisoners; Double-Cross System; Intelligence in the Far East; D-Day Intelligence - Invention of the Modern Computer; D-Day and Operation Bodyguard; German Intelligence and How it Failed; MI6 Preparations for the Cold War.

Additional information

GOR005083475
9780233003375
0233003371
Britain's Secret War by Michael Smith
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Welbeck Publishing Group
20111013
64
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