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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Some cities were built to impress. Others were built to survive.Beneath the familiar streets of the modern world exists another landscape, one carved through stone, excavated beneath neighborhoods, and concealed behind doors most people pass without noticing.These underground spaces were not created merely as curiosities.They were answers to fear.In The City Built for the Bomb, historian and nonfiction author Matthew Nichols investigates the remarkable true history of underground cities, tunnels, shelters, quarries, wartime complexes, and subterranean communities created when political violence, military technology, climate, economics, and human survival collided.Travel beneath Cappadocia, where communities expanded extraordinary underground refuges through volcanic rock. Descend into the old quarries beneath Paris, where centuries of excavation created a second geography below the French capital. Enter the subterranean spaces of Naples, the hidden infrastructure beneath Seattle, and the shelters where Londoners sought protection as German bombs fell during the Second World War.Then the story moves deeper into the twentieth century.In Vietnam, the Cu Chi tunnels became part of a brutal subterranean battlefield. In Australia, residents of Coober Pedy discovered that life underground could offer protection from punishing desert heat. In Helsinki, civil-defense planning helped create an extraordinary underground infrastructure designed to serve a peaceful city while remaining useful in an emergency.And beneath Beijing lies one of the Cold War's most remarkable physical legacies.As relations between China and the Soviet Union deteriorated and nuclear war became a genuine strategic fear, Mao-era China mobilized enormous numbers of people to construct civil-defense tunnels beneath the capital. What began as preparation for catastrophe would eventually acquire another life, with portions of Beijing's underground world used for housing before authorities moved to close unsafe subterranean residences.The bombs never came.The city remained.Nichols separates documented history from the legends that inevitably accumulate around places hidden from public view. The result is not a catalogue of mysterious tunnels, but an investigation into why societies repeatedly choose to build downward when survival above ground can no longer be taken for granted.Behind every tunnel is a pressure that forced someone to dig.War. Heat. Poverty. Politics. Industry. Fear.The City Built for the Bomb reveals the hidden systems beneath some of the world's most famous cities and the people whose lives became entangled with them.For readers fascinated by hidden history, Cold War history, underground cities, military history, forgotten infrastructure, archaeology, urban history, and the strange true stories concealed beneath everyday places, this is history from an entirely different level.The surface tells us what a civilization wanted the world to see.Underground, we discover what it was afraid of. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The Dead Man Who Invaded Sicily is a riveting work of military deception and hidden history that reveals how armies win by shaping what the enemy believes. From Operation Mincemeat to the Ghost Army, from Patton's phantom army to Soviet WWII deception, this book follows the true stories of war's second battlefield: the mind of the opponent.A dead man carrying false papers. Inflatable tanks. Imaginary spies. Wooden cannons. A disguised merchant ship built to lure a submarine into firing range. Across the 19th and 20th centuries, commanders, intelligence officers, camouflage experts, and double agents learned that a well-built illusion could redirect armies, delay attacks, and change the course of history.Written in a vivid narrative style, this book explores the real operations behind some of the most famous deception campaigns in military history. Readers will encounter Operation Mincemeat, the Ghost Army, Operation Fortitude, Q-ships, maskirovka, and other true stories war enthusiasts and history readers love. Each chapter shows how deception worked not as a trick, but as a system of evidence, expectation, and action.For readers of World War II history, espionage, battlefield strategy, and obscure wartime operations, this is a fast-moving account of how false signals, controlled rumors, and carefully staged evidence fooled enemy commanders. If you are drawn to wartime intelligence, secret operations, and the hidden mechanics behind famous victories, this book delivers a fresh angle on history you thought you knew. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. On February 1, 1942, the Atlantic went dark.German U-boats had begun using Enigma M4, a strengthened naval cipher machine fitted with a fourth rotor. At Bletchley Park, the principal Atlantic U-boat network, known to Germany as Triton and to British cryptanalysts as Shark, suddenly became unreadable.For ten critical months, the German Navy directed its submarine campaign through a communications system it believed was beyond practical penetration.The Fourth Rotor reconstructs the hidden intelligence struggle behind that confidence. Rather than repeating the familiar story of one brilliant codebreaker defeating one machine, Matthew Nichols examines the larger system that made both German success and eventual Allied penetration possible.The story moves from the Polish mathematical attack on Enigma and the dangerous capture of documents from U-110 to the introduction of M4, the American coastal offensive, Karl Doenitz's radio-controlled wolf packs, German B-Dienst successes against Allied communications, and the fatal recovery of cipher books from the sinking U-559.At the center of the book is a question more consequential than how Enigma was broken: Why did the German naval command continue to trust it?Doenitz and his communications specialists were not careless. They imposed radio discipline, shortened transmissions, developed destruction procedures, strengthened the machine, and investigated suspicious Allied successes. Yet every plausible alternative explanation, radar, direction finding, aircraft reconnaissance, captured charts, agents, and operational coincidence, helped preserve confidence in the cipher.The machine became the alibi.Drawing upon translated German U-boat command war diaries, declassified intelligence studies, naval histories, Bletchley Park records, museum documentation, and established scholarship, The Fourth Rotor separates verified history from popular simplification. It restores the Polish cryptanalysts, naval boarding parties, intercept operators, Hut 8 analysts, bombe operators, intelligence officers, escort crews, and merchant sailors to a story too often reduced to a single name.This is not merely the history of a code being broken. It is the documented account of a command structure that mistook cryptographic complexity for operational invisibility, and of the men at sea who paid for that assumption.For readers interested in Bletchley Park, Enigma, U-boat warfare, intelligence history, naval operations, and the Battle of the Atlantic. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A traitor inside George Washington's personal guard. A wartime investigation led by John Jay. A city divided between revolution and loyalty to the Crown.In June 1776, as British forces prepared to strike New York, authorities uncovered a suspected network of Loyalist recruiters, counterfeiters, political operatives, and soldiers willing to turn against the American cause. At the center stood Thomas Hickey, a member of Washington's own guard who would become the first soldier executed for treason during the Revolution.But was this truly an assassination plot against Washington, or has history transformed a wartime security investigation into something larger?Built from surviving records, military proceedings, congressional correspondence, and contemporary accounts, this investigative history follows the evidence wherever it leads, separating documented fact from patriotic legend. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Most retellings of the Aldrich Ames disaster focus on the shock in Langley. The cash, the missed warning signs, the sheer audacity of the betrayal. But honestly? That's looking through the wrong end of the telescope. The Roll Up steps to the other side of the glass. It strips away the cinematic spy mythology to show you the cold, bureaucratic reality of how the KGB actually handled the greatest intelligence windfall of the Cold War. Because a traitor walking into an embassy doesn't instantly cripple an intelligence network. The real catastrophe happens when an adversary service takes that betrayal, grades it, matches it against their own files, and executes a disciplined, multi-year cover-up. From the first $50,000 payout to the devastating "Sweep Chain" that sent American assets to the executioner, this is the story of an administrative nightmare. It's about how the KGB and SVR managed Ames not as a thrilling secret agent, but as pure, brutal infrastructure. If you're tired of the usual cloak-and-dagger folklore and want to see how the intelligence machine actually grinds its gears, this sharp, focused deep-dive is for you. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. On the night of September 21, 1776, New York City erupted in flames.Only days after George Washington's army abandoned Manhattan and British forces occupied the city, a massive fire tore through lower New York. Hundreds of buildings vanished into smoke and ash. Churches collapsed. Homes disappeared. Warehouses burned. Panic swept through streets already fractured by war.But the most important question survived the flames.Who started the fire?In The Manhattan Inferno, investigative historian Matthew Nichols examines one of the American Revolution's most controversial and least understood events. Moving beyond patriotic legend and partisan accusation, he follows the surviving evidence through military correspondence, congressional debates, eyewitness testimony, occupation records, intelligence operations, and decades of historical interpretation.The investigation reveals a city trapped between competing forces: British occupation, Patriot resistance, Loyalist fear, military necessity, political calculation, and the brutal realities of urban warfare.Inside this book, readers will discover: - George Washington's controversial discussions about denying New York to the British.- Why Continental Congress explicitly refused permission to destroy the city.- The military disaster on Long Island that transformed New York into a strategic liability.- The British occupation of Manhattan and the atmosphere of suspicion that followed.- The arrest of suspected arsonists and the search for those responsible.- Nathan Hale's final mission and how his capture became intertwined with the city's darkest week.- The competing British, Loyalist, and Patriot narratives that emerged from the disaster.- The evidence historians still debate nearly 250 years later.Rather than offering easy answers, The Manhattan Inferno reconstructs the world that made the fire possible. It separates verified facts from rumor, contemporary accusation from later myth, and historical probability from patriotic storytelling.The result is a gripping investigation into war, espionage, urban catastrophe, and the hidden costs of revolution.Some mysteries are never fully solved.But the ashes still have a story to tell. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. London, 1849: The Smell Before the Coffins. Forget the flickering gaslight and the "lovable rogues" of Charles Dickens. In ROOKERY: The Filth, the Fear, and the Lie of Victorian London, the fog is stripped away to reveal a brutal forensic reality. Using parliamentary papers, sanitary commission reports, and sworn testimony, this investigative history performs a "post-mortem" on the Victorian slum. From the ankle-deep sewage of Jacob's Island to the lethal overcrowding of St. Giles, discover the systemic greed that balanced landlord profit against human breath. Inside this "Forensic Dissection" The Environmental Assessment: How contaminated wells and overflowing cesspools primed the city for cholera. Internal Economics: The subletting chains and absentee landlords who made squalor a profitable industry. Trauma Analysis: The reality of living "one wall away from the knife" in London's most dangerous mazes. This isn't a story of villains in top hats-it is the story of a system allowed to fester. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Two-thirds of Union soldiers who died in the Civil War were not killed by Confederate bullets.They died in camp.In mud-soaked encampments outside Washington, in overcrowded winter quarters in Virginia, and in makeshift hospitals where medical supplies sat stranded on rail sidings, disease became the Union Army's deadliest enemy. Dysentery. Typhoid. Measles. Pneumonia. Camp fever.The Camps of Rot is a forensic reconstruction of how sanitation failures, political patronage, bureaucratic delay, and logistical collapse turned Union field camps into engines of infection. Drawing from soldier letters, surgeon reports, congressional hearings, and U.S. Sanitary Commission investigations, this book separates battlefield myth from epidemiological record.This is not a story of inevitable tragedy.It is a documented case study in preventable systemic failure.For readers of investigative military history and serious Civil War scholarship, The Camps of Rot reexamines what truly killed the Union Army-and why the quieter war under canvas has been largely forgotten. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The Dead Man Who Invaded Sicily is a riveting work of military deception and hidden history that reveals how armies win by shaping what the enemy believes. From Operation Mincemeat to the Ghost Army, from Patton's phantom army to Soviet WWII deception, this book follows the true stories of war's second battlefield: the mind of the opponent.A dead man carrying false papers. Inflatable tanks. Imaginary spies. Wooden cannons. A disguised merchant ship built to lure a submarine into firing range. Across the 19th and 20th centuries, commanders, intelligence officers, camouflage experts, and double agents learned that a well-built illusion could redirect armies, delay attacks, and change the course of history.Written in a vivid narrative style, this book explores the real operations behind some of the most famous deception campaigns in military history. Readers will encounter Operation Mincemeat, the Ghost Army, Operation Fortitude, Q-ships, maskirovka, and other true stories war enthusiasts and history readers love. Each chapter shows how deception worked not as a trick, but as a system of evidence, expectation, and action.For readers of World War II history, espionage, battlefield strategy, and obscure wartime operations, this is a fast-moving account of how false signals, controlled rumors, and carefully staged evidence fooled enemy commanders. If you are drawn to wartime intelligence, secret operations, and the hidden mechanics behind famous victories, this book delivers a fresh angle on history you thought you knew.…