Stealing Secrets, Telling Lies: How Spies and Codebreakers Helped Shape the Twentieth Century

✍ Scribed by Gannon, James

Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 337
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

James Gannon examines the impact of many major incidents, such as the Zimmerman telegram interception, deciphering the German Enigma machine, the Soviets' damaging penetration of the British Foreign Service through the ""Cambridge Five"" spy ring, and the U.S. counterintelligence coup known as Operation Venona (classified until 1995).

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Preface
Introduction: Information, Please!
Part 1: THE GREAT WAR
1. Herr Zimmermann's Fatal Blunder
Part 2: THE CIPHER WAR
2. The Enigma Demystified
3. The Longest Battle
4. Outfoxing the Desert Fox
5. Colossus
6. Who Broke Purple?
7. Masters of Deception
Part 3: THE ESPIONAGE WAR
8. Learned Spies
9. ""Lucy, "" Man of Mystery
Part 4: THE PACIFIC WAR
10. Infamy and Sacred Duty
11. ""Our Man in Tokyo""
Part 5: THE COLD WAR
12. The Spy Who Knew Everything
13. The Spy of the Century
14. Speak, Ciphers!
15. Exposing Comrade Bluster. 16. Workers against the Workers' StateNotes
Bibliography
Index
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I
J
K
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M
N
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Q
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✦ Subjects

Espionage;International relations

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