Here is an encyclopedia with an A-to-Z listing of the secrets of World War II. It contains people, missions and events all related to intelligence operations during the war. Each section contains both historical information for that particular event, as well as how it affected the outcome of the war. Included are references to Allen Dulles, the Pearl Harbor attack, Richard Sorge, The Double Cross System, the OSS, the Cambridge Spies, Edward Layton, the Venona materials, the ULTRA Secret, William Donovan, and many more.
Much of the information in this book was obtained by the author from recently declassified documents which he obtained from the National Archives, making this book full of secrets that are just now beginning to see the light of day.
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Entries include well-known spies, such as professional baseball player and scholar Morris "Moe" Berg, who worked for the OSS in the 1940s and in his most important assignment almost killed Werner Heisenberg, one of the lead German scientists working on the atomic bomb in Germany. There is also an entry on James Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, a commander in the British navy who, with his own band of raiders, carried out espionage missions behind the lines.
Other entries include Venona, a project begun during the war to break the code of all of the Soviet diplomatic messages being sent from the U.S. to Moscow. A major achievement of this project was the discovery that the Soviets had penetrated the Manhattan Project. More examples of entries are: Enigma machine, Navajo code talkers, and OSS truth drug project.
Although other titles, such as Spy Book: The Encyclopedia of Espionage (1997), cover all aspects of espionage, this is the only one that focuses on World War II. Although its value as a reference tool is somewhat hampered by the lack of cross-references, it is a recommended purchase for public libraries where an interest in World War II and spies is evident. RBB
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