Top secret tales of World War II
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Breuer, William B., 1923- author

Başlık
Top secret tales of World War II

Yazar
Breuer, William B., 1923- author

ISBN
9780471078401

Yazar Ek Girişi
Breuer, William B., 1923- author

Fiziksel Tanımlama
xi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

İçerik
pt. 1. Heading toward the abyss: Sinister pplots in the "new Germany" ; "Burglars" call on a Japanese spymaster ; Ten moles in Hitler's high command ; A scheme to declare Hitler insane ; The blond beast's ruse backfires ; Did his generals sabotage the Führer? ; Her Serene Highness plots with Goering ; A bizarre kidnapping scheme ; The French consul's janitor ; A German general spies on himself ; A baseball player's foresight ; Tailing a Soviet spy in England -- pt. 2. The lights go out in Europe: A weird hoax to launch a war ; Most secret : defuse the magnetic mines ; Mystery explosion in a Nazi shrine ; Goering hires a rainmaker ; Churchill's amazing gamble ; A covert weather war ; Masquerade on the high seas ; Mazi spies in the U.S. Capitol ; Two tiny tots escape to England ; The world's dumbest spy ; Global celebrity a secret agent ; A POWs wife unlocks a code Canada's covert "luxury fleet" ; One airplane infuriates the Führer -- pt. 3. Thrusts and counterthrusts: A cunning forgery pays off ; Shopping for U.S. secrets ; A scientist on a covert mission ; "Black propaganda" warriors ; A Trojan horse hoax ; The Bulldog bites the German Navy ; Keeno, king of the robots ; A German POW makes history ; A kamikaze plan against Pearl Harbor ; Hijacking Mussolini's money ; Hitler's doom seen in the stars ; Abwehr dupe : Vice President Wallace ; The Nazis' most unlikely secret agent -- pt. 4. Conflict spreads around the world: A batty idea for firebombing Tokyo ; The FBI nabs a Honolulu "sleeper" ; A French counterfeit traitor ; Their weapons were words ; Peculiar demise of a captured plane ; A bishop in disguise ; The mysterious Inspector Thompson ; A Nazi counterfeiting plot ; A chance meeting in a café ; Hitler's evil guardian angel ; Roosevelt's guest a Nazi spy ; Ruse in a Berlin brothel ; A spy spies on the spymaster -- pt. 5. The tide turns: A female resistant tricks the Gestapo ; An owner blows up his factory ; A plan to bomb the United States ; The princes and seven thousand Danish JEws ; Eisenhower's secret weapon ; A call for Nazi suicide pilots ; A plot to murder two Allied generals ; Hitlker warned by a female spy ; An alarming breach of security ; The wizard and the mushroom man ; Warning : your submarine may explode ; A puzzling episode in Normandy ; A poison "treatment" for Hitler ; Belgian resistants steal a locomotive ; A German general cuts a strange deal -- pt. 6. Allied march to victory: The Armée Secrète saves Antwerp ; Machinations at a Dutch hotel ; "Gift-wrapping" a kidnap victim ; An ingenious German deception plan ; Spies warm into the Third Reich ; Blasting doomed resistants to freedom ; The plot to surrender a Nazi army ; A covert plan to seize Berlin ; Urgent : pilfer one hundred huge missiles.

Özet
"Winston Churchill once remarked that the secret warfare waged in World War II equaled "the most fantastic inventions of romance and melodrama."" "William Breuer vividly confirms that assessment with these compelling accounts of Allied and Axis intelligence throughout World War II. Here are tales of patriotism and treachery, saboteurs, sleepers, and moles, giving fresh perspectives on the best-known interceptions

Konu Başlığı
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service.
 
Dünya Savaşı, 1939-1945 -- Gizli servis.
 
Subversive activities.
 
Yıkıcı faaliyetler.
 
Military intelligence -- History -- 20th century
 
Askeri istihbarat -- Tarih -- 20. yüzyıl.


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