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.
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.
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.
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
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
