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Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
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Include books by the same authorLast Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War
Lynne Olson · 576 pages
"When the Nazi Blitzkrieg subjugated Europe in World War II, London became the safe haven for the leaders of seven occupied countries--France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Norway, Czechoslovakia and Poland--who fled there to avoid imprisonment and set up governments in exile to commandeer their resistance efforts. The lone hold-out against Hitler's offensive, Britain became a beacon of hope to th
Seizing The Enigma: The Race To Break The German U-boat Codes, 1939-1943
David Kahn · 336 pages
At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
Gordon W. Prange · 912 pages
"Fifty years after the attack that plunged America into World War II, 'At Dawn We Slept' remains the greatest account of Pearl Harbor ever written. This gripping study scrupulously reconstructs the Japanese attack, from its conception (less than a year before the actual raid) to its lightning execution; and it reveals the true reason for the American debacle: the insurmountable disbelief in the Ja
Enigma - The Battle for the Code
Hugh Sebag-Montefiore · 528 pages
Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard · 368 pages
General George S. Patton, Jr. died under mysterious circumstances in the months following the end of World War II. For almost seventy years, there has been suspicion that his death was not an accident--and may very well have been an act of assassination. "Killing Patton" takes readers inside the final year of the war and recounts the events surrounding Patton's tragic demise, naming names of the m
The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945
Max Hastings · 612 pages
An examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II--intelligence--shows how espionage successes and failures by the United States, Britain, Russia, Germany, and Japan influenced the course of the war and its final outcome.
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
Ben Macintyre · 414 pages
Ben Macintyre's Agent Zigzag was hailed as "rollicking, spellbinding" (New York Times), "wildly improbable but entirely true" (Entertainment Weekly), and, quite simply, "the best book ever written" (Boston Globe). In his new book, Operation Mincemeat, he tells an extraordinary story that will delight his legions of fans.In 1943, from a windowless basement office in London, two brilliant intelligen
Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue
Kathryn J. Atwood · 266 pages
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There
Sinclair McKay · 336 pages
Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous and crucial achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's "Enigma" code in which its most important military communications were couched. This country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was home to Britain's most brilliant mathematical brains, like Alan Turing, and the scene of immense advances in technology -- indeed, the birth of mod
Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS
Lisa Rogak · 240 pages
The Ghost Army of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, and Other Audacious Fakery
Rick Beyer · 256 pages
Nancy Wake
Peter FitzSimons · 368 pages
The Nazi Hunters
Damien Lewis · 425 pages
The Nazi Hunters is the incredible, hitherto untold story of the most secret chapter in the SAS's history. Officially, the world's most elite special forces unit was dissolved at the end of the Second World War, and not reactivated until the 1950s. Among their last actions was a disastrous commando raid into occupied France in 1944, which ended in the capture, torture and execution of 31 soldiers.
The Man Who Never Was
Ewen Montagu · 160 pages
It is the story of a World II deception by the Allies intended to dupe the Third Reich in believing that a sea landing in the Mediterranean would be in Greece instead that in Sicily where in reality occurred later. They drop a dead man dressed as an officer and carrying maps and documents in Spain coast which was eventually found by German spies. Hitler was informed and believed the informati
A Man Called Intrepid
William Stevenson
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Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War 1941-1945
Leo Marks · 613 pages
The Special Operations Executive (SOE), a British WW2 group infiltrating Reich-dominated Europe, had during the War's early and middle years a continuing problem in certain parts of France. They would train new agents, drop them into French territory, note their contact with a local agent... and they were lost, presumed captured or killed. Two things needed to happen fast: first, a new network h
Churchill's Wizards: The British Genius For Deception 1914–1945
Nicholas Rankin · 480 pages
The Battle of Midway
Craig L. Symonds · 452 pages
Avenue of Spies: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris
Alex Kershaw · 286 pages
Brings to life the true story of an American doctor and his family in Paris, and his heroic espionage efforts during World War II. Exclusive Avenue Foch was Paris's hotbed of spies, secret police, informers, and Vichy collaborators. So when the couple at number 11--American physician Sumner Jackson and his Swiss-born wife Toquette--joined the French resistance, they knew the stakes were extraordin
Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-45
Neill Lochery · 332 pages
In this riveting narrative, renowned historian Neill Lochery offers a revelatory portrait of World War II's back stage as he tells the story of how Portugal, a relatively poor European country trying frantically to remain neutral amidst extraordinary pressures, survived the war not only physically intact but significantly wealthier. The country's emergence as a prosperous European Union nation wou
Why the Allies Won
Richard Overy · 416 pages
The author offers a thorough analysis of the events, efforts, and qualities that led to the Allied victory in World War II: the war at sea, the battles in Russia and Eastern Europe, the air war, and the invasion of Europe, the relocation of the Soviet industrial base, along with the quality of leadership, fighiting ability, and moral motivation.
Infamy: Pearl Harbor and its Aftermath
John Willard Toland · 371 pages
Investigates the military, political, and historical remifications of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, examining the unpreparedness of the United States, the cover-up following the disaster, and other important aspects of the attack and its effects.