Item #68939 Britain's Secret War 1939-45. How Espionage, Codebreaking and Covert Operations Helped Win the War. Michael SMITH.
Britain's Secret War 1939-45. How Espionage, Codebreaking and Covert Operations Helped Win the War.
Britain's Secret War 1939-45. How Espionage, Codebreaking and Covert Operations Helped Win the War.
Britain's Secret War 1939-45. How Espionage, Codebreaking and Covert Operations Helped Win the War.
Britain's Secret War 1939-45. How Espionage, Codebreaking and Covert Operations Helped Win the War.
Britain's Secret War 1939-45. How Espionage, Codebreaking and Covert Operations Helped Win the War.

Britain's Secret War 1939-45. How Espionage, Codebreaking and Covert Operations Helped Win the War.

London: Andre Deutsch, 2011. [Intelligence/cryptography] FIRST EDITION. Oblong quarto (29 x 25cm), pp.64. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates. Publisher's pictorial hardcovers, in printed slip-case, priced at £30.00 (crossed through). An interactive book containing removable documents. Minor handling only; near fine. An account of wartime intelligence, covert operations, deceptions and codebreaking. Includes sections on Bletchley Park, MI6, MI5, SOE, Naval Intelligence, Special Forces and the 'Next War' (Cold War). Ian Fleming is mentioned several times within, alongside Peter Fleming, Admiral John Godfrey, Allan Hillgarth, Colin Gubbins, Fitzroy Maclean, Paddy Leigh Fermor, 'Wild Bill' Donovan, 'Little Bill' Stephenson, Allen Dulles, Alan Turing, Evelyn Waugh and Wilfred Thesiger. Also features accounts of the Fleming-derived plans Operation Goldeneye, Operation Mincemeat and Operation Ruthless. Fleming was the Admiralty liaison officer visiting Bletchley twice a month; he devised Operation Ruthless, a deception plan to secure an Enigma codebook. Item #68939

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