The Secret War With Germany : Deception, Espionage, and Dirty Tricks, 1939-1945 - Hardcover

Breuer, William B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0891412980 ISBN 13: 9780891412984

Publisher: Presidio, 1988

Synopsis

LOSE THE STARS-
OR LOSE EVERYTHING!

Spacer Chan Dalton is torn between two masters. The pacifist aliens who hold Earth under Quarantine want him to find out why their starships have been disappearing in the Geyser Swirl, the Bermuda Triangle of the galaxy. Earth's military, which has secretly discovered a way to break the quarantine, assumes that someone out there is making ships vanish, including Earth's, and wants Dalton to find the culprits and hopefully stop them -- with extreme prejudice, if necessary.

The trouble is, the aliens hold the taking of intelligent life, even in selfdefense, to be the greatest of sins. It was Earth's violent ways (in defense of the damned pacifist aliens!) that led to the quarantine in the first place -- and if Dalton is forced to fight, it will unveil, and so destroy, Earth's final chance to reach for the stars again.

So when Dalton does indeed discover the hostile invaders responsible for the lost starships, he is faced with an impossible decision: Fight and lose access to space forever; or allow a rapacious enemy to run riot over all that he holds dear...

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Product Description

Pacifist aliens who hold Earth under quarantine want Chan Dalton to find out why their starships are disappearing. But the aliens are opposed to taking intelligent life, even in self-defense. When Dalton discovers hostile invaders, he must choose between fighting, losing the stars forever, or letting the enemy destroy Earth.

From Library Journal

Breuer, well known for his campaign histories of World War II, turns to the unconventional. His reliance, too often uncritical, on primarily British sources gives the work a one-sided tone, but German successes are not neglected. And any shortcomings in the work's perspective are more than balanced by its unsurpassed scope. Not just a series of cloak-and-dagger narratives, Breuer's "secret war" covers electronics and espionage, dummy airfields and double agents, and much, much more. Breuer compares these operations and integrates them into the war's general history in a way that makes this book welcome alike to general readers and scholars. Dennis E. Showalter, Colorado Coll., Colorado Springs
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Presidio
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0891412980
• ISBN 13: 9780891412984
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 318