World War II in secret : the hidden conflict 1939 to 1945
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Place reservation for World War II in secret : the hidden conflict 1939 to 1945Explores the undercover stories of the war, from classified weapons programs and top-secret technology to covert operations and clandestine missions.
Main title:
World War II in secret : the hidden conflict 1939 to 1945 / by Gavin Mortimer
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Imprint:
Minneapolis Minnesota Zenith Press
Collation:
208 pages illustrations colour maps
Contents:
Timeline -- The Axis attacks -- Secret pacts and poor Poland -- Blitzkrieg -- Great Britain's Guerrilla fighters -- The Blitz and the radar race -- The Abwehr spying game -- Fallschirmjager conquer Crete -- The U-boat wolfpacks -- Italian ingenuity and the human torpedo -- Fighting back -- The Enigma codebreakers -- The Japanese purple cipher -- FBI versus Abwehr in America -- The roots of French resistance -- The Doolittle raid -- US codebreakers at Midway -- Desert deceit in North Africa -- Wild Bill and the Office of Strategic Services -- Turning the tide -- Operation Gunnerside -- Warriors of the Warsaw Ghetto -- The man who never was -- The bouncing bomb -- The Comet Line -- Enigma/Kursk and Operation Bagration -- America's Nisei Intelligence -- Australia's Z Special Unit -- The Navajo codetalkers -- The coming of the end -- Ghost armies -- D-Day double cross -- The special air service in France -- V-Weapons -- Jet war and the Me 262 -- The Manhattan Project and the atomic age -- The secret Cold War
ISBN:
9780760347645 (hardcover)
Dewey class:
940.548 WOR
Local class:
940.548
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
61438
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 940.548WOR | hbkOnloan - Due: 13 Mar 2025 |
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