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The walls have ears : the greatest intelligence operation of World War II /

A history of the elaborate and brilliantly sustained World War II intelligence operation by which Hitler's generals were tricked into giving away vital Nazi secrets. At the outbreak of World War II, MI6 spymaster Thomas Kendrick arrived at the Tower of London to set up a top secret operation: G...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Fry, Helen, 1967- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Prologue : decades of silence
  • 1. The Tower of London
  • 2. M Room operations
  • 3. Trent Park
  • 4. Prized prisoners, idle chatter
  • 5. The spider
  • 6. Battle of the generals
  • 7. Mad Hatter's tea party
  • 8. Secret listeners
  • 9. Rocket science
  • 10. "Our guests"
  • 11. Saga of the generals
  • 12. War crimes and the Holocaust
  • 13. Breaking the German will to resist
  • 14. British intelligence, POWs and war crimes trials
  • 15. Always listening
  • Epilogue : secrets to the grave.