The Secret War, Max Hastings
The Secret War, Max Hastings
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The Secret War
Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945

Author: Max Hastings

Narrator: Steven Crossley

Unabridged: 30 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 05/10/2016

Synopsis

From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret War is a sweeping examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II—intelligence—showing how espionage successes and failures by the United States, Britain, Russia, Germany, and Japan influenced the course of the war and its final outcome.Spies, codes, and guerrillas played unprecedentedly critical roles in the Second World War, exploited by every nation in the struggle to gain secret knowledge of its foes, and to sow havoc behind the fronts. In The Secret War, Max Hastings presents a worldwide cast of characters and some extraordinary sagas of intelligence and resistance, to create a new perspective on the greatest conflict in history.

About Max Hastings

Max Hastings is the author of twenty-eight books, most about conflict, and between 1986 and 2002 served as editor in chief of the Daily Telegraph, then as editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes, for both his journalism and his books, the most recent of which are the bestsellers Vietnam, The Secret War, Catastrophe, and All Hell Let Loose. Knighted in 2002, Hastings is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of King’s College London, and a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He has two grown children, Charlotte and Harry, and lives with his wife, Penny, in West Berkshire, where they garden enthusiastically.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Aristotle on December 01, 2019

This one was a slog and a half, and I almost didn’t finish it. That, however, doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy it. This I will explain. Max Hasting’s The Secret War is a compendium on the many elements of espionage that took place during the Second World War. It goes through painstaking detail to explain......more

Goodreads review by Bevan Lewis on November 08, 2015

The Lloyd Report on German oil resources estimated that by December 1940 the aerial bombing campaign had achieved a 15% cut in German oil availability. This would have been news to the Nazi leadership, who at the time were unaware that the allies were engaged in a systematic bombing campaign. Intell......more

Goodreads review by Olethros on October 06, 2016

-Disparidad de sensaciones.- Género. Historia. Lo que nos cuenta. Con el subtítulo Espías, códigos y guerrillas 1939-1945, acercamiento al espionaje, la parte del león, desde los protagonistas en el campo hasta las ventajas técnicas para su desempeño y pasando por los diferentes grupos que afrontaron......more

Goodreads review by Mal on April 06, 2017

Shelves-full of history books have been written about the triumphs of Allied intelligence in World War II. The Ultra Secret. The Man Who Never Was. Operation Mincemeat. Agent Zigag. Double Cross. A Man Called Intrepid. I’ve read all these and more. (There are hundreds more.) Now comes British journa......more

Goodreads review by Marty on January 31, 2017

I expected this to be interesting tales of spying, code-breaking, and other aspects of war behind the front lines. Unfortunately, after the prologue it seemed to become a list of who spied for whom, why, who they used, and how they died. I tired of it after the first 60 pages or so. The prologue was......more

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