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Sep 10, 2015 · ‘The Secret War 1939-45’ examines that other war waged by British, American, German, Russian and Japanese intelligence-gathering personnel. Moving chronologically through the conflict, Max Hastings charts the successes and failures of allied and axis forces, espionage and counterespionage.
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Smith's latest book is The Real Special Relationship, a widely acclaimed account of the exceptionally close intelligence relationship between British and American spies and codebreakers from Bletchley Park to the war in Ukraine.
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- Beginnings and Early Battles
- The War in The East
- Britain’s Strategy on Its Own
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2.) Keegan recognizes Hitler A Study In Tyranny by Alan Bullock as the “best biography of Hitler,” and he was likely referring to the unabridged edition. ((Keegan 1990, 596.)) 3.) Hitler’s War and the War Path by David Irving is an interesting recommendation by Keegan. The book has been criticized for years as being “pro-Hitler”, yet Keegan recogni...
9.) Keegan says that although The Origins of The Second World Warby A. J. P. Taylor is contentious, it “cannot be bettered as an introduction to that subject.” ((Keegan 1990, 596.)) In a later book, Keegan described Taylor as a “notorious controversialist.” ((Keegan 1996, 9.)) 10.) To Lose a Battle: France 1940 by Alistair Horne is the final instal...
17.) Keegan describes The Soviet High Commandand the following two books by John Erickson as “overthrowing all other writers in English on the war in the east.” ((Keegan 1990, 597.)) 18.) The Road to Stalingradby John Erickson 19.) The Road to Berlinby John Erickson 20.) German Rule in Russiaby Alexander Dallin 21.) Comrades in Arms: British Aid to...
22.) The Continental Commitmentby Michael Howard 23.) The Mediterranean Strategy in the Second World Warby Michael Howard
24.) Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1941-1942by Maurice Matloff 25.) Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1943-1944by Maurice Matloff 26.) Command Decisionsby Kent Roberts Greenfield focuses on key decisions that had long-term repercussions during the war. Written for leaders, the book analyzes the information available to the comma...
27.) British Intelligence in the Second World Warby F. H. Hinsley focuses not only in how British intelligence operated throughout the war, but the influence it had on strategies and planning. 28.) The Hut Six Storyby Gordon Welchman focuses on a British mathematician who was instrumental in breaking the German’s coded messages. 29.) Ultra Goes to ...
33.) A History of Modern Japanby Richard Storry 34.) Empires in the Balance: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies to April 1942by H. P. Willmott 35.) Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japanby Ronald Spector 36.) Coral Sea, Midway and Submarine Actions, May 1942-August 1942by Samuel Eliot Morison 37.) Allies of a Kind: The United States...
38.) War, Economy and Society, 1939-1945by Alan Milward examines the economic relations between warring, allied, and neutral states through the world during the war. 39.) The Design and Development of Weapons by M. M. Postan, which is expensive and out-of-print but really cheap on the Kindle. 40.) Keegan values Bomber Commandby Max Hastings “for it...
42.) Keegan credits The Struggle for Europeby Chester Wilmot for effectively inventing “the modern method of writing contemporary military history, which combines political, economic and strategic analysis with eye-witness accounts of combat.” ((Keegan 1990, 598.)) While Keegan admits that some of Wilmot’s judgements are no longer valid, he believe...
43.) The Shadow War: European Resistance, 1939-1945by Henri Michel 44.) The Embattled Mountainby F. W. Deakin, a memoir of a British paratrooper who found himself in the middle the Yugoslav partisan movement against Nazi occupation. 45.) Life with the Enemy: Collaboration and Resistance in Hitler’s Europe, 1939-1945by Werner Rings focuses on Switze...
Sep 26, 2022 · British intelligence in the Second World War. "The highly acclaimed British intelligence in the Second World War, originally published in five volumes, provided the first reliable and comprehensive account of intelligence at work.
British Intelligence in the Second World War. Volume 5. Strategic Deception. Author: F. H. Hinsley. Date Published: October 1990. availability: Unavailable - out of print October 2004. format: Hardback. isbn: 9780521401456. Rate & review.
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Jun 25, 1993 · There have been many books published, starting in the 1970s, relating the role of the British efforts at Bletchley Park in decoding German submarine command codes and the effects on convoy routing, attacking German submarines, and so forth.
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Jun 4, 2010 · During World War II, signals intelligence was always and increasingly the most valuable of Great Britain's intelligence sources. The Poles first solved the German Enigma cipher machine. Britain, which first solved the general Luftwaffe key in May 1940 and a naval Enigma key in June 1941, exploited these and other keys, though with interruptions ...
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