The Enigma story: its original invention and use by German forces and how it was the Poles who first cracked - and passed on to the British - the key to the German airforce Enigma. The more complicated German Navy Enigma appeared to them to be unbreakable.Breaking the German Enigma codes was not only about brilliant mathematicians and professors at Bletchley Park. There is another aspect of the story which it is only now possible to tell. It takes in the exploits of spies, naval officers and ordinary British seamen who risked, and in some cases lost, their lives snatching the vital Enigma codebooks from under the noses of Nazi officials and from sinking German ships and submarines.

2001, Phoenix House, , 0753811308,< R-03>,491pp illustrations, Good in card covers, , CARD
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 7709-01..............................£4.00 

The author was in one of the most sensitive positions in the KGB, responsible for coordination of all security aspects of Russian cipher communications with its outposts abroad. When he was exfiltrated with his wife and daughter by the CIA in 1980 the coup convinced the KGB he was dead. He worked for the National Security Agency for a number of years and is a recipient of several prestigious awards in intelligence and security.

1993, Naval Institute Press, , 1557507643,< R-03>,416pp, 7 photos, Good in d/w, ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 18640-01..............................£8.00 

The author compares cultures and traditions at Cambridge in the 1930s between the Sciences - where the atom was split and later genetic secrets of life were found - and the Arts Faculty with it's diverse societies influencing the Traitors of the age. Pages browning. previous owner name on title page. Good in d/w.

1986, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, , 0297788663,< R-03>,179pp, , ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 36800-01..............................£10.00 

In 1941 Britain stood alone against the unstoppable Nazi war machine. British and Polish codebreakers at Bletchley Park had broken the German Enigma cipher, but their staff and resources were small. In October 1941, leading codebreakers, including the outstanding Alan Turing, wrote to Winston Churchill asking for help. He ordered that they be given all they needed, adding the instruction: 'Action This Day'. It was to be a key turning point - their brilliant work is believed to have shortened WWII by up to two years. The authors, leading authorities on the work of Bletchley Park, have assembled a number of key writers to explain its importance in the history of codebreaking and the birth of today's computer age.

2001, Bantam Books, , 0593049101,< R-03>,xv + 543pp. Plates, illustrations, bibliography, index., good in d/w - slight water damage to page edges. all text and images complete, ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 31335-01..............................£17.00 

Good in creased card covers. Pen marks on first two pages. In 1941 Britain stood alone against the unstoppable Nazi war machine. British and Polish codebreakers at Bletchley Park had broken the German Enigma cipher, but their staff and resources were small. In October 1941, leading codebreakers, including the outstanding Alan Turing, wrote to Winston Churchill asking for help. He ordered that they be given all they needed, adding the instruction: 'Action This Day'. It was to be a key turning point in the war. Their brilliant work is believed to have shortened it by up to two years. The authors, leading authorities on the work of Bletchley Park, have assembled a number of key writers to explain its importance in the history of codebreaking and the birth of today's computer age.

2001, Bantam Books, , 0593049829,< R-03>,xv + 543pp. Plates, illustrations, bibliography, index., , , CARD
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 31335-02..............................£6.00 

In 1939 several hundred people reported to a Victorian Mansion in Buckinghamshire to be known as Station X, the Allies top secret centre for deciphering enemy codes. Their task was to break the Enigma cypher used for high level German communications. The people involved, from Alan Turing - father of the modern computer - to the operatives who intercepted the messages are all part of this history. The author interviewed many of those who worked there to build a picture of exactly what life was like in this chaotic and isolated environment.

1998, Channel 4 Books, , 0752221892,< R-03>,184pp, 20 b/w photos., Very good in d/w, ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 32026-01..............................£9.00 

The secret pacts between the US and British in WWII, in which they agreed to share all code and cipher breaking operations against the Germans, Japanese and Italians. Cooperation which was often fraught was made more difficult with the US Navy - US Army rivalries. The agreement and co-operation carried over into the post war period. This is the story of why the secret arrangement worked and thrived.

1993, Airlife Publishing, , 1853104477,< R-03>,276pp, map, notes, bibliography, index, As new in dw, ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 11887-02..............................£4.00 

A survey of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) with Documents. This book is the first general study of SOE operations in Europe to have been written using the wartime documents now available. Although SOE archives remain closed, the author has used a wide range of other sources to produce what is likely to remain for some time the only comparative study of Britain’s direct physical links with resistance in occupied Europe. It is set firmly in the wider strategic and diplomatic context of the war.

1983, Univ. of Toronto Press, , 0802065228,< R-03>,295pp, Very Good in card covers. Small crease top r/h corner front., , CARD
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 12086-01..............................£8.00 

The secret intelligence operation set up in 1940 at the instigation of Churchill and directed from its HQ in New York by Sir William Samuel Stephenson, CC, MC, DFC. Stephenson was a Canadian spymaster, and the senior representative of British intelligence for the western hemisphere during World War II. He conducted the secret diplomacy between Churchill and Roosevelt and was responsible for many top level operations including the breaking of Enigma, the background to the assassination of Heydrich, Anglo-American intelligence cooperation in the sinking of Bismarck, and the Manhatten Project.

1976, Book Club Associates, , ,< R-03>,xxvi + 486pp, photos., Poor copy, rubbed blue boards, no dustjacket. Watermark on bottom page edges., ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 13348-01..............................£7.00 

Ex Library. new endpapers, Marks on page edges. text clean. The secret intelligence operation set up in 1940 at the instigation of Churchill and directed from its HQ in New York by Sir William Samuel Stephenson, CC, MC, DFC. Stephenson was a Canadian spymaster, and the senior representative of British intelligence for the western hemisphere during World War II. He conducted the secret diplomacy between Churchill and Roosevelt and was responsible for many top level operations including the breaking of Enigma, the background to the assassination of Heydrich, Anglo-American intelligence cooperation in the sinking of Bismarck, and the Manhatten Project.

1976, Macmillan, , 0333193776,< R-03>,xxviii + 486pp, 42 photos, maps, Reading copy. Illustrated boards. , ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 13348-02..............................£6.00