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The Secret War : Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945

The Secret War : Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945 Hardcover - 2016

by Max Hastings

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  • Title The Secret War : Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945
  • Author Max Hastings
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 640
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, New York
  • Date 2016
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G006225927XI3N00
  • ISBN 9780062259271 / 006225927X
  • Weight 1.9 lbs (0.86 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.6 x 2.2 in (23.62 x 16.76 x 5.59 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1930's
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945 - Secret service, World War, 1939-1945 - Cryptography
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.548

From the rear cover

From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret War is a sweeping examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II--intelligence--showing how espionage successes and failures by the United States, Britain, Russia, Germany, and Japan influenced the course of the war and its final outcome.

Spies, codes, and guerrillas played unprecedentedly critical roles in the Second World War, exploited by every nation in the struggle to gain secret knowledge of its foes, and to sow havoc behind the fronts. In The Secret War, Max Hastings presents a worldwide cast of characters and some extraordinary sagas of intelligence and resistance, to create a new perspective on the greatest conflict in history.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 05/01/2016, Page 66
  • Kirkus Reviews, 03/01/2016, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 03/01/2016, Page 109
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/23/2016, Page 0