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13th November 2021


HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF SIGNALS INTELLIGENCE

by Nigel West






This comprehensive volume on signals intelligence includes wireless interception, electronic intelligence, cryptanalysis, and more.It features around 300 entries on topics ranging from the Falkland Islands to the only British MI5 officer during WWI who spoke Japanese. The author covers all periods from the Boer War up to the latest conflicts, with an article on social media. The dictionary also addresses acronyms, and includes a chronology, several appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. Also provided are links to a number of relevant websites, including some from Russia, Scandinavia, and other parts of Europe.

Mint - like new in decorated boards - 340pp

Scarecrow Press, 2012
ISBN 9780810871878

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Web No.
23320-01

£60.00



PEIPER'S WAR

by Danny S. Parker







The Wartime Years of SS Leader, Jochen Peiper, 1941-44. Peiper's War is a new serious work of military history which presents a unique view off the Second World War as seen from a prominent participant on the dark side of history. Peiper was a handsome Aryan prodigy who was considered a hero in the Third Reich and had been Heinrich Himmler's personal adjutant in the early years of the war. Having procured a field command in Hitler's namesake fighting force, the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, he become famous for a flamboyant and brutal style of warfare on the Eastern Front. There few prisoners were taken, and motives of racial genocide were never far from unspoken orders. Transferred to the west, Peiper's battlegroup incinerated a tiny town, Boves, in Northern Italy and killed the village mayor and priest. Peiper was convicted in the Malmedy massacre trial and sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted, with Peiper serving 12 years in prison. Being well-connected to Himmler and other generals of the period, Peiper finds a place in the narrative of the inner workings of the Nazi elite.

New in d/w - 620pp, 69 b/w photos,
maps, plans

Frontline Books, 2020
ISBN 9781526743428

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Web No.
37993-01

£35.00




OPERATION FALL WEISS

by Stephan Janzyk





An account of German Paratroopers in the Poland Campaign, 1939. Although the fledgling paratroop operations in Belgium and the Netherlands in 1940, and on Crete in 1941, attracted worldwide attention, less well-known is that the use of airborne forces had been planned for the invasion of Poland in 1939, in an act that began the Second World War. On several occasions the men of Parachute Regiment 1 were sitting ready in their Ju52 transports, fully equipped and ready to go. Many of these young and in-experienced paratroopers would go on to experience the full horrors of warfare and for some of them, the Polish Campaign would end in a 'hero's death'. The author uses war diaries, maps, contemporary documents and photographs, including those from various private collections around the world.

New in d/w - 176pp, numerous
b/w & colour photos

Pen & Sword, 2017
ISBN 9781473894617

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Web No.
37739-01

£19.99
 



 

THE CROWN JEWELS






by Nigel West & Oleg Tsarev

This lively account of Soviet foreign intelligence activity in Great Britain during the Cold War is based on documents newly released from the KGB archives, their "crown jewels," as the KGB unofficially called its most valuable assets. Written by Nigel West and former KGB lieutenant colonel, Oleg Tsarev, The Crown Jewels provides much new information on the activities of the well-known Soviet spies, including Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, and Anthony Blunt, as well as many lesser-known spymasters and recruiters, reproducing many of their reports for the first time. The book adds unsuspected dimensions to the famous Cambridge ring (including details of Burgess's offer to murder his fellow conspirator Goronwy Rees). It also reveals a completely unknown Soviet network based in London and headed by a named Daily Herald journalist, describes the huge scale of Soviet penetration of the British Foreign Office from 1927 to 1951, explores a previously unknown spy ring in Oxford, and tells about the key role played by Blunt in supervising post-war Soviet espionage activities in London

Like new in d/w - 366pp, 44 b/w photos
Yale university Press, 1999
ISBN 0300078064

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Web No.
25077-01

£14.00
 

  


 

THE CIVIL SERVICE RIFLES IN THE GREAT WAR

by Jill Knight






Civil servants are not generally known for their soldierly qualities, yet in the Great War a volunteer regiment of 'civil servants and their friends' served with distinction in the front line, fighting in many of the major battles. This study, subtitled 'All Bloody Gentlemen', draws on previously unpublished material − personal memoirs, diaries and interviews − to tell their extraordinary story. It is supported by a wealth of marvellous photographs, together with appendices on Brigade Orders of Battle, Battle Honours and Awards, and Graves and Memorials.

New in d/w - 240pp, numerous b/w
illustrations, maps, appendices, index

Pen & Sword, 2004
ISBN 9781844150571

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Web No.
32368-02

£18.00

  



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THE END OF THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL ARMY: VOLUME II

by Alan K. Wildman


Web No.
18344-01

£60.00


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