{"product_id":"the-secret-war-spies-ciphers-and-guerrillas-1939-1945-paperback","title":"The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMax Hastings\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Monumental.\" \u003ci\u003e--New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCatastrophe: 1914\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Secret War\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpies, 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Secret War\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis definitive global history of World War II intelligence reveals: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eEspionage and Counter-Espionage: \u003c\/b\u003e A worldwide cast of characters from Britain's MI6, America's OSS, Germany's Abwehr, and the Soviet NKVD engage in a high-stakes shadow war.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Codebreakers: \u003c\/b\u003e The story of Bletchley Park, the monumental effort to crack the German Enigma cipher, and how Ultra intelligence shaped Allied strategy from the Battle of the Atlantic to D-Day.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLegendary Spies and Agents: \u003c\/b\u003e Follow the extraordinary sagas of real-life spies, including the infamous Cambridge Five, Tokyo-based master spy Richard Sorge, and the valet known as 'Cicero'.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eGuerrilla Warfare and Resistance: \u003c\/b\u003e An unflinching look at how partisans and resistance movements fought back, from the campaigns of the SOE to the vast and brutal Soviet partisan operations.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSuccesses and Failures: \u003c\/b\u003e A masterful analysis of how secret knowledge truly changed outcomes--and how pivotal blunders and overlooked intelligence could lead to disaster.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eInferno\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCatastrophe: 1914\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Secret War\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpies, 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. 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