behind-the-scenes stories of World War IIReader's Digest Associationpublisher.textnyu19641964monographiceng

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576 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 20 cmUnknown stories revealing wartime events of the covert operations of German and Japanese spies in the United States before Pearl Harbor to the dropping the atomic bomb.The intrigue of infamy: December 1941. The inside story of Pearl Harbor / Edwin Muller -- The last instant of peace / Gordon W. Prange -- Five chances missed / Walter Lord -- Backs to the wall: 1939-1941. The spy-catchers / Frederic Sondern, Jr. -- Britain's treasure goes west / Leland Stowe -- Paris- escape / Etta Shiber -- The one that got away / Kendal Burt and James Leasor -- Fooling enemy airmen / Don Wharton -- The thief and the patriot / Karen Micha�elis -- Human torpedoes at Gibraltar / Frank Goldsworthy -- We organized the French underground / Andre Girard as told to George Kent -- Britain's pet spy / as told to Al Newman -- The cruise of the raider Atlantis / Robert Littell -- The mystery of the Hess flight / William J. Snyder -- The evaders / Roman Turski -- Against the enemy tide: 1942. Hitler's undercover invasion of the United States / Lawrence Elliott -- The great Manila Bay Silver Operation / John G. Hubbell -- The micro-dot / J. Edgar Hoover -- Joey's quiet war / Thomas M. Johnson -- The hunt for a spy / Carl B. Wall -- Shepherds of the underground / George Kent -- Ghost ship / Colonel Robert L. Scott, Jr. -- Giraud's brilliant escape / Frederick C. Painton -- The grand surprise campaign / Don Wharton -- We were expecting you at Dakar / Donald Q. Coster -- Surreptitious entry / Willis George -- Cunning vs. Cunning: 1943. The corpse that hoaxed the axis / Ewen E.S. Montagu -- Censors and spies / Mary Knight -- Jungle of hidden friends / Ralph E. Henderson -- The secret at Peenemunde / Allan A. Michie -- The man who saved London / George Kent -- The spy who double-crossed Hitler / J. Edgar Hoover -- The brain invasion / Frederick C. Painton -- Eleven against the Nazi A-bomb / Frederic Sondern, Jr. -- The highest-paid spy in history / Robert M.W. Kempner -- Trapping the Scharnhorst / C.S. Forester -- Conspiracy of mercy / George Kent -- Tunnel to freedom: Flight Lieutenant Paul Brickhill / as told to Allan A. Michie -- Striking back: 1944. I was Monty's double / M.E. Clifton James -- The golden sphinx / Thomas M. Johnson -- The idol of San Vittore / Indro Montanelli -- The code books of the deep / Rear Admiral Daniel V. Gallery -- "Baggy pants" / William E. Brougher -- The phantom army / Blake Clark -- Fakery in the air / Allan A. Michie -- A question of courage / Dorothy Cameron Disney -- The longest day / Cornelius Ryan -- What really happened to Rommel / Countess Waldeck -- Death on the wing / Captain Rikihei Inoguchi and Commander Tadashi Nakajima -- The American who did business with Himmler / Edwin Muller -- A private truce / John Hereward Allix -- They carried our top secrets / Frederic Sondern, Jr. -- Victory behind the lines: 1945. The most dangerous man in Europe / Thomas M. Johnson -- The frogmen / Edwin Muller -- The hidden annex / Louis de Jong -- The great ambush / William L. White -- The Nazi counterfeit plot / Major George J. McNally -- Adolf Hitler's last days / Frederic Sondern, Jr. -- Mystery man of the A-bomb / John Gunther -- The silence of 600,000 / Thomas M. Johnson -- The secret that won the war / Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II -- Hirohito's struggle to surrender / Colonel Bonner Fellers -- Now it can be told / Thomas M. Johnson.Trapping the Scharnhorst / by C.S. Forester.World War, 1939-1945Secret serviceSecret service World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924 1939-1945 fast D810.S7 R4940.5485Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott),1899-1966Reader's digest.Pleasantville, N.Y., Reader's Digest Association [1964](OCoLC)65475409963022763DLC73020820220406095155.0ocm00527210 eng