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

Gannon, James

ISBN 10: 1574883674 / ISBN 13: 9781574883671

Editore: University of Nebraska Press, 2001

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Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included. Codice articolo E15M-01419

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Titolo: Stealing Secrets, Telling Lies: How Spies ...

Casa editrice: University of Nebraska Press

Data di pubblicazione: 2001

Legatura: Rilegato

Condizione: Very Good

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Stealing Secrets, Telling Lies explores how espionage and good intelligence analysis shaped or changed the outcome of many of the major geopolitical events of the twentieth century. The German victory at the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914, the entrance of the United States into World War I, the defeat of Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union's faster-than-anticipated development of the atomic bomb were all facilitated by stealing enemy secrets. Espionage and codebreaking have been instrumental in the rise, fall, and preservation of the world powers throughout history. The interception of the Zimmerman Telegram, the deciphering of the German Enigma machine, the Soviet's damaging penetration of the British Foreign Service through the "Cambridge Five" spy ring, and the U.S. counterintelligence coup known as Operation Venona (which remained classified until 1995) are just some of the dramatic episodes detailed here.

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Book by Gannon James