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    The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939–1945
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    The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939–1945
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    The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939–1945

    Written by Max Hastings

    Narrated by Steven Crossley

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    ‘As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastings’s achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject’ Sunday Times

    ‘Authoritative, exciting and notably well written’ Daily Telegraph

    ‘A serious work of rigourous and comprehensive history … royally entertaining and readable’ Mail on Sunday

    In ‘The Secret War’, Max Hastings examines the espionage and intelligence machines of all sides in World War II, and the impact of spies, code-breakers and partisan operations on events. Written on a global scale, the book brings together accounts from British, American, German, Russian and Japanese sources to tell the story of a secret war waged unceasingly by men and women often far from the battlefields but whose actions profoundly influenced the outcome.

    Returning to the Second World War for the first time since his best-selling ‘All Hell Let Loose’, Hastings weaves into a ‘big picture’ framework, the human stories of spies and intelligence officers who served their respective masters. Told through a series of snapshots of key moments, the book looks closely at Soviet espionage operations which dwarfed those of every other belligerent in scale, as well as the code-breaking operation at Bletchley Park – the greatest intelligence achievement of the conflict – with many more surprising and unfamiliar tales of treachery, deception, betrayal and incompetence by spies of Axis, Allied or indeterminate loyalty.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateSep 10, 2015
    ISBN9780007574209
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    The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939–1945
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    Max Hastings

    Max Hastings is the author of thirty books, most about conflict, including Bomber Command, Armageddon, Das Reich, The Korean War, The Battle for the Falklands, Vietnam, Operation Pedestal and Abyss, and editor of two anthologies. He worked as a reporter for BBC television and British newspapers, covering eleven wars, including Vietnam, the 1973 Yom Kippur war and the Falklands war. Between 1986 and 2002 he served as editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, then editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes for both journalism and his books. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of King’s College, London, and was knighted in 2002. He has two grown-up children, Charlotte and Harry, and lives with his wife Penny in West Berkshire, where they garden enthusiastically.

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      A very well written and educational account of intelligence in the Second World War. I thoroughly enjoyed the audiobook and commend it to others.

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