The Secret War
Spies, Codes and Guerillas 1939-45
by Max Hastings · first published 2015
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An examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II--intelligence--shows how espionage successes and failures by the United States, Britain, Russia, Germany, and Japan influenced the course of the war and its final outcome.
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If this sort of thing interests you, I can recommend [Max Hastings: The Secret War] (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-War-Max-Hastings/dp/00075039...)
on “Operation Mincemeat: How a dead tramp fooled Hitler (2010)” ↗Max Hastings makes the point in his book on intelligence in WW2 (The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945) that intelligence agencies always tell their political masters what they want to hear - this happens in democracies and totalitarian regimes. It was presumably…
on “The Iraq Inquiry: Statement by Sir John Chilcot [pdf]” ↗