The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerillas 1939-3945 - Max Hastings

As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastingss 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 presents a worldwide cast of characters and extraordinary sagas of intelligence and Resistance to create a new perspective on the greatest conflict in history. The book links tales of high courage ashore, at sea and in the air to the work of the brilliant boffins battling the enemys technology. Here are not only the unheralded codebreaking geniuses of Bletchley Park, but also their German counterparts who achieved their own triumphs and the fabulous espionage networks created, and so often spurned, by the Soviet Union. With its stories of high policy and human drama, the book has been acclaimed as the best history of the secret war ever written.

ISBN: 9780007503902

Pages: 612

William Collins, 2016

Good condition; cover has some small creases; evidence of aold spill affecting back cover (see pics)

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