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The Secret War

Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945

The Secret War( )
Author: Hastings, Max
ISBN:978-0-06-225927-1
Publication Date:May 2016
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:Harper
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $35.00
Book Description:

"Monumental." --New York Times Book Review

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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...
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Book Details
Pages:640
Detailed Subjects: History / Wars & Conflicts / World War Ii / General
Political Science / Intelligence & Espionage
History / Europe / Great Britain / 20Th Century
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 1.6 Inches
Book Weight:2.07 Pounds
Author Biography
Hastings, Max (Author)
British journalist, editor, and historian Max Hastings was born on December 28, 1945. He was a foreign correspondent for BBC television and London's Evening Standard, for which he later served as editor from 1996 to 2001. Hastings also worked as editor and editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph.

In addition to presenting BBC historical documentaries and writing numerous books of military history, Hastings has contributed to publications including the Daily Mail, The Guardian, and the New York Review of Books. He received the nonfiction Somerset Maugham Award for Bomber Command, as well as the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Prize for both Overlord and The Battle for the Falklands. His title Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War made The New York Times Best Seller List in 2013. The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945 was published in 2016 and is also on the New York Times Bestsellers List.

Hastings was knighted in 2002, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and from 2002-2007 was President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England.

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