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Spying on the Reich: The Cold War Against Hitler

byR. T. Howard

R. T. Howard explores the largely hidden intelligence struggle against Nazi Germany before and during World War II. British, American, Soviet, German, and other services gathered military, political, scientific, and economic information while fighting deception and institutional rivalry. The book places famous operations within a broader “cold war” of surveillance, analysis, diplomacy, sabotage, and secret cooperation that began before open conflict. Howard shows how intelligence successes depended on patient networks and interpretation, not just dramatic agents, and how prewar failures and wartime innovation shaped the security institutions that survived Hitler's defeat.

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Publication date

2023

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780192862990