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| | Espionage:
The Greatest Spy Operations of the 20th Century
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| | by Ernest Volkman
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ZIN Product Number: 10125445
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 255 pages
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
ISBN: 0471161578
Release Date: Jan 12, 1991
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This amazing collection of real-life capers, con games, and subterfuges offers an eye-opening glimpse of the unseen forces behind the most important events of the twentieth century. Documenting twenty-eight secret operations, espionage expert Ernest Volkman unravels the mysteries and provides a shrewd assessment of the impact of covert activity on world history.
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This fascinating volume reveals the people, strategies, and plots behind 36 of the world's premiere espionage operations--some never before brought to light, with new details on the more famous. Reading like a collection of riveting adventure stories, it exposes the masterminds, the targets and impact on history of each one. 25 photos.
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| | | |  | | | | Introduction | | | Glossary | | | The Kingdoms of Espionage | | | 1 | The Master Spy's Last Case: The Trust Operation, 1921-1924 | 3 | | 2 | Our Man in Havana: Cuban Double Agents, 1961-1987 | 16 | | 3 | All Quiet on the Western Front: Operation BODYGUARD, 1943-1944 | 26 | | 4 | The Descent of A3725: The Double Cross System, 1940-1945 | 37 | | 5 | Long Island Calling Hamburg: Operation TRAMP, 1939-1941 | 48 | | 6 | The Bronze Goddess: Operation ULTRA, 1939-1945 | 61 | | 7 | "By Guess and by God": Operation MAGIC, 1936-1945 | 73 | | 8 | The Key to Rebecca: Operation KONDOR, 1942 | 83 | | 9 | The Hollow Tennis Racket: Operation GRIFFIN, 1937-1945 | 95 | | 10 | The Biggest Secret: Operation CANDY, 1941-1945 | 105 | | 11 | Black Tom: The German Sabotage Operation, 1915-1917 | 116 | | 12 | A Bullet for General Polyakov: Operation TOP HAT, 1959-1985 | 126 | | 13 | The Mole War: The CIA-KGB Struggle, 1961-1974 | 139 | | 14 | The Mystery of a "Righteous Gentile": The Wallenberg Case, 1944-1990 | 149 | | 15 | The Lady at the Kiosk: The Berlin Spy Carousel, 1966-1989 | 160 | | 16 | Mr. Kent Comes to Tea: The Theft of American Secrets, 1939-1941 | 167 | | 17 | East Wind, Rain: Operation Z, 1932-1941 | 179 | | 18 | Defeat at the Iron Curtain: The CIA's Underground War, 1947-1956 | 193 | | 19 | The Colonel and the Aviatrix: Spying in The Mandates, 1922-1937 | 205 | | 20 | The Cambridge Comintern: The Ring of Five, 1934-1951 | 217 | | 21 | The Family That Spied: The Walker Spy Ring, 1967-1985 | 227 | | 22 | The Pirates of Tel Aviv: Operation PLUMBAT, 1965-1968 | 239 | | Epilogue: Espionage as Opera Bouffe: Operation CORNFLAKES, 1944-1945 | 248 | | Index | 256 |
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