'As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastings's achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject' Sunday Times
'Authoritative, exciting and notably well written' Daily Telegraph
'A serious work of rigourous and comprehensive history … royally entertaining and readable' Mail on Sunday
In The Secret War, Max Hastings presents a worldwide cast of characters and extraordinary sagas of intelligence and Resistance to create a new perspective on the greatest conflict in history. The book links tales of high courage ashore, at sea and in the air to the work of the brilliant 'boffins' battling the enemy's technology. Here are not only the unheralded codebreaking geniuses of Bletchley Park, but also their German counterparts who achieved their own triumphs and the fabulous espionage networks created, and so often spurned, by the Soviet Union. With its stories of high policy and human drama, the book has been acclaimed as the best history of the secret war ever written.
| ISBN: | 9780007503902 |
| Publication date: | 5th May 2016 |
| Author: | Max Hastings |
| Publisher: | William Collins an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 640 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern warfare Second World War True war and combat stories True stories of heroism, endurance and survival Espionage and secret services Military intelligence History of Computing, digital and information technologies |