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(Subject: Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare) Contains narrative set-pieces describing operations with many illustrations of special weapons, equipment and operators. Chapters on Sabotage include Troyes railway Yards and Section D and Division 19 as well as the Welwyn Experimental Laboratory. Others cover Assassination and Elimination, Communications, Training, Raising Revolt, Jungle operations, etc. The appendices covers Abbreviations, Notes on… Read more

(Subject: Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare) Mass market paperback. Very good. The real-life spymaster who inspired Ian Fleming. (Published: 1986) (Publisher: Grafton Books) (ISBN: 0586068678) (Pagination: 253pp illustrations) (Condition: ) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare) Mass market paperback. Very Good. The recruitment of Nazi Collaborators after WW.II by the US Government for military and intelligence operations (Published: 1983) (Publisher: Penguin Books) (ISBN: 0140071644) (Pagination: 226pp) (Condition: ) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare) The author, a jewish girl whose parents were sent to Auschwitz, worked in the Belgian Resistance in the Second World War. She became an office clerk at Gestapo Brussels HQ where she was able to copy lists of potential victims and warn them of impending raids. She became a skilled agent even… Read more

(Subject: Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare) The "story of the evasion line; a web of safe houses spread out over occupied France, its heart in Marseille, which sheltered servicemen on the run. The author is the niece of Dr.Rodocanachi whose flat was the lines'headquarters' (Published: 1989) (Publisher: Abson Books) (ISBN: 0902920723) (Pagination: 224pp, illustrations) (Condition: Good in card… Read more

(Subject: Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare) Mass market paperback. Film lifting on bottom edge of back cover. Good. The story of the quest undertaken by Kavan Elliott's son to discover the truth about his father. From the torture chambers of Budapest to the classified archives of the British Secret Intelligence Service. Behind the cover of a seemingly respectable… Read more

(Subject: Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare) Mass market paperback. Pages browning. Previous owner name on endpaper. Very good condition for age and use. The story of WWII master-spy, Richard Sorge. The author met this Soviet Agent when he was serving in the WWII German Embassy in Japan. In 1946 he was interned in an Allied camp for diplomats… Read more

(Subject: Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare) A visual compendium of all forms of propaganda used by the Allied and Axis powers. Comic Books, magazine covers, posters of Shahn, Boccasile, Hohlwein and Fougasse, cartoons of Fotzpatrick, Low and Seppla. Stills from contemporary films, leaflets, stamps, postcards, all artifacts in the art of persuasion. With more than 550 photographs, over… Read more

(Subject: Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare) Mass market paperback. Pages browning.Creasing on covers. Good The history of Ultra, from the invention of the original Engima coding machine, the Polish pioneering work, and its development by the British at Bletchley Park, Station X, to break the German signals codes in WWII. Lewin bases his research not only on the… Read more

(Subject: Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare) Mass market paperback. Small crease bottom right, front cover. Page edges browning. The author joined Czech Military Intelligence in 1928 was head the head from 1937 to 1948. He ran Espionage and Intelligence gathering as well as Counter-Intelligence. His agents were some of the most important of WWII, they told of the… Read more

(Subject: Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare) Mass market paperback. Pages browning. The author was seconded at the beginning of WWII to the War Office for intelligence duties. He was recruited by General Gubbins into the legendary underground Auxiliary Units and, subsequently SOE. His operational activities took him to Tunisia where he established the operational base from which the… Read more

(Subject: Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare) Fading on card covers. Translated from the original French, The Red Orchestra was a group of Soviet cells that operated throughout Germany and occupied Europe until late 1943. (Published: 1989) (Publisher: Schocken Books Inc.) (ISBN: 0805209522) (Pagination: 496pp) (Condition: good in faded card covers) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare) Mass market paperback. Crease on front cover. page edges browning.The story of the courageous men and women who served behind the lines in WWII with SOE. The author worked with many of the agents such as Charles MacIntosh, Christine Granville and Tom Harrison. He describes many operations including the capture of the… Read more

(Subject: Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare) European resistance 1940-45. The forms it took, the technical side, what happened, the results, the individual resisters. Intelligence, Deception, Escape, Subversion. This contains corrections from the original 1976 edition. (Published: 1979) (Publisher: Granada Publishing) (ISBN: 0586082778) (Pagination: 346pp maps, ) (Condition: Good in card covers) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare) A comprehensive history of the French Resistance in WWII from the movement's birth after the fall of France in 1940 to liberation in 1944. The author describes the movement's small propaganda units to a fully fledged armed force, the intelligence war between Resistance spies and the Gestapo and the double game played… Read more

(Subject: Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare) Mass market paperback. Pages browning but very good condition. The French Section of SOE, the famous resistance organisation raised and run by Colonel Buckmaster, who considered this book "by far the most complete and most accurate of all the accounts that have appeared." Includes the exploits of the brothers de Vomecourt, Jean-Pierre… Read more

(Subject: Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare) Known as GARBO to the Allies and ARABEL to the German Intelligence Service. His spy ring was based in London. He was decorated for his WWII espionage activities by both the British and the Germans (with the Iron Cross). The story of MI5's masterly campaign of strategic deception. (Published: 1986) (Publisher: Grafton… Read more

(Subject: Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare) The author describes his experiences in the Sudan, Ethiopia and central Europe before the war and how he used them when he became part of clandestine operations in 1940. He was deeply involved in the campaign which restored the Emperor to the Ethiopian throne before returning to London and helping to build… Read more

(Subject: Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare) The "Deceptions of an MI6 Officer" An insider's personal account of his service and experiences working in MI6. He was recruited in WWII served in Gibraltar and Algiers and involved in Deception operations. Highly decorated by the French, he ran the Iberian Section after WWII and later headed a department at MI6… Read more

(Subject: Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare) Based on the recollections of Colonel William Eliscu OBE, late of the OSS (Office of Strategic Services). This is his account of the deception operation called Operation Stampede a principally American operation to deceive the enemy in the 3 months prior to Overlord and the invasion of Normandy in 1944. (Published: 1958)… Read more