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Author : Geoffrey Pidgeon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956051530
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (515 download)
Download or read book The Secret Wireless War written by Geoffrey Pidgeon and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover subtitle: The story of MI6 communications, 1939-1945.
Author : Nigel West
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526755793
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book GCHQ written by Nigel West and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The go-to intelligence expert and author of MI6 has “provided the clearest review of GCHQ and its predecessors in a publicly available book” (Firetrench). Signal intelligence is the most secret, and most misunderstood, weapon in the modern espionage arsenal. As a reliable source of information, it is unequalled, which is why Government Communications Headquarters, almost universally known as GCHQ, is several times larger than the two smaller, but more familiar, organizations, MI5 and MI6. Because of its extreme sensitivity, and the ease with which its methods can be compromised, GCHQ’s activities remain cloaked in secrecy. In GCHQ: The Secret Wireless War 1900-1986, the renowned expert Nigel West traces GCHQ’s origins back to the early days of wireless and gives a detailed account of its development since that time. From the moment that Marconi succeeded in transmitting a radio signal across the Channel, Britain has been engaged in a secret wireless war, first against the Kaiser, then Hitler and the Soviet Union. Following painstaking research, Nigel West is able to describe all GCHQ’s disciplines, including direction-finding, interception and traffic analysis, and code-breaking. Also explained is the work of several lesser known units such as the wartime Special Wireless Groups and the top-secret Radio Security Service. Laced with some truly remarkable anecdotes, this edition of this important book will intrigue historians, intelligence professionals and general readers alike. “Nigel West is an acknowledged expert in this field of literature and his latest book is fascinating and intriguing.” —Books Monthly “Rich in the kind of detail from which all students of radio and military history can learn.” —The Spectrum Monitor
Author : Nigel West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526755780
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (557 download)
Download or read book GCHQ written by Nigel West and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In GCHQ: The Secret Wireless War, the renowned expert Nigel West traces GCHQ's origins back to the early days of wireless and gives a detailed account of its development since that time. Laced with some truly remarkable anecdotes, this edition of this important book will intrigue historians, intelligence professionals and general readers alike.
Author : N. West
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9780297787174
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (871 download)
Download or read book G. C. H. Q ? written by N. West and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1986 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Abrutat
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Radio War written by David Abrutat and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2019-12-08 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War German intelligence had deployed wireless teams throughout occupied Europe. Agents had even been deployed to mainland Britain to spy on British military activity. Monitoring and reporting of their wireless transmissions fell to a small, secretive and largely unknown unit manned almost exclusively by volunteers. The Voluntary Interceptors (VI) as they became known would spend hours every day at home monitoring the short wavelengths for often faint and difficult to copy signals transmitted by these German secret intelligence services. This unit was to become known as the Radio Security Service (RSS) and was at the core of the signals intelligence production effort at Bletchley and the insights into German military tactical and strategic planning. Without interceptors like the RSS, Bletchley would not have existed. Their story has never truly been written and RADIO WAR focuses on the secret world of wireless espionage and includes first-hand accounts from the surviving veterans of the unit. Its existence was only made public 35 years after WWII ended, shortly after Bletchley Park's secrets were exposed. Patrick Reilly, the Assistant to Head of MI6 Stewart Menzies, was to say of the RSS.... `a team of brilliance unparalleled anywhere in the intelligence machine.'
Author : Sinclair McKay
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 1781310904
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)
Download or read book The Secret Listeners written by Sinclair McKay and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the celebrated code-breaking at Bletchley Park lies another secret… The men and women of the ‘Y’ (for Wireless’) Service were sent out across the world to run listening stations from Gibraltar to Cairo, intercepting the German military’s encrypted messages for decoding back at the now-famous Bletchley Park mansion. Such wartime postings were life-changing adventures – travel out by flying boat or Indian railways, snakes in filing cabinets and heat so intense the perspiration ran into your shoes - but many of the secret listeners found lifelong romance in their far-flung corner of the world. Now, drawing on dozens of interviews with surviving veterans, Sinclair McKay tells their remarkable story at last.
Author : Mark Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781841613437
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (134 download)
Download or read book Radar and the Secret Wireless War written by Mark Jones and published by . This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until 1940, British & German intelligence were operating at the same levels. In Britain however, the recruitment of amateur radio enthusiasts was part of a developing, elaborate plan to take intelligence to a tactical offensive level by sending false information for German field officers. This book tells the story.
Author : Gil Murray
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1550023713
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Invisible War written by Gil Murray and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Second World War raged in Europe, an equally fierce war was taking place with Japan in the Far East.
Author : Lewis E. Theiss
Publisher : Tutis Digital Pub
ISBN 13 : 9788132012900
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The Secret Wireless written by Lewis E. Theiss and published by Tutis Digital Pub. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Max Hastings
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062259296
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)
Download or read book The Secret War written by Max Hastings and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Monumental." --New York Times Book Review NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret War is a sweeping examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II—intelligence—showing how espionage successes and failures by the United States, Britain, Russia, Germany, and Japan influenced the course of the war and its final outcome. Spies, codes, and guerrillas played unprecedentedly critical roles in the Second World War, exploited by every nation in the struggle to gain secret knowledge of its foes, and to sow havoc behind the fronts. In The Secret War, Max Hastings presents a worldwide cast of characters and some extraordinary sagas of intelligence and resistance, to create a new perspective on the greatest conflict in history.
Author : Matthew M. Aid
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135280983
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Secrets of Signals Intelligence During the Cold War written by Matthew M. Aid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the importance of Signals Intelligence (Sigint) has become more prominent, especially the capabilities of reading and deciphering diplomatic, military and commercial communications of other nations. This work reveals the role of intercepting messages during the Cold War.
Author : Paul Brown
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750962771
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Secrets of Q Central written by Paul Brown and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-11-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quiet market town with no military presence was chosen as the secret communications centre for Britain as the country prepared for war with Germany in 1937. When hostilities began, ' Q Central' attracted a dozen other clandestine operations set up to defend the country or designed to confuse and undermine enemy morale. The headquarters of radar, RAF Group 60, also came to Leighton Buzzard to be hidden from German attack and to be close to the telephone and radio communications needed to run its vast chain of radar stations. These directed the defending fighters that saved the country in the Battle of Britain and then took the bombing war to Germany. Close by, for the same reasons of secrecy and safety, were the satellite stations of Bletchley Park, the now famous code-breaking centre; the Met Office at Dunstable, which gave the all clear for the D-Day landings; Black Ops units that set up false radio stations and wrote propaganda to confuse the enemy; and airfields used for dropping agents behind enemy lines. At Q Central itself was the largest telephone exchange in the world, with more than 1,000 teleprinters communicating with all the armed services in every theatre of war and directing the operations of the secret services. Now the restrictions of the Official Secrets Act have been lifted, enabling eight members of the Leighton Buzzard and District Archaeology and History Society to piece together this compelling story for the first time.
Author : Robin Denniston
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750979550
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Churchill's Secret War written by Robin Denniston and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The key part played by Winston Churchill in shaping the course of the Second World War is still of great interest to historians worldwide. In the course of his research, Robin Denniston has uncovered previously unknown files of diplomatic intercepts which show that Churchill's role in British foreign policy and war planning was far more signficant than has hitherto been supposed. Although neither a commander-in-chief nor a head of state, he personally exerted considerable influence on British foreign policy to force Turkey into the Second World War on the side of the Allies. This ground-breaking book explores Churchill's use of secret signals intelligence before and during the Second World War and also sheds fresh light on Britain's relations with Turkey - a subject which has not received the attention it deserves. The book examines a little-known plan to open a second front in the Balkans, from Turkey across the eastern Mediterranean, designed to hasten D-Day in the west, and reveals new information on the 1943 Cicero spy scandal - the biggest Foreign Office security lapse until the Burgess and Maclean affair some twenty years later.
Author : Nigel West
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538120321
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Cold War Intelligence written by Nigel West and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cold War was a sophisticated conflict fought by the west, principally the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, with support from NATO, CENTO and SEATO, to confront the Kremlin and its Warsaw Pact satellites. The battlegrounds extended from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Byelorussia and Albania to Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary, and resulted in conventional, proxy wars fought in Vietnam, Egypt and Korea. Only now, thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, can these issues be examined through the prism of the secret files generated by the intelligence agencies on both sides which have been declassified. This Historical Dictionary of Cold War Intelligence contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on crucial operations spies, defectors, moles, double and triple agents, and the tradecraft they apply. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about intelligence during the Cold War.
Author : Nigel West
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1473879574
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Cold War Counterfeit Spies written by Nigel West and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cold War, with its air of mutual fear and distrust and the shadowy world of spies and secret agents, gave publishers the chance to produce countless stories of espionage, treachery and deception. What Nigel West has discovered is that the most egregious deceptions were in fact the stories themselves. In this remarkable investigation into the claims of many who portrayed themselves as key players in clandestine operations, the author has exposed a catalogue of misrepresentations and falsehoods. Did Greville Wynne really exfiltrate a GRU defector from Odessa? Was the frogman Buster Crabb abducted during a mission in Portsmouth Harbour? Did the KGB run a close-guarded training facility, as described by J. Bernard Hutton in School for Spies, which was modelled on a typical town in the American mid-west, so agents could be acclimatised to a non-Soviet environment? With the help of witnesses with first-hand experience, and recently declassified documents, Nigel West answers these and other fascinating questions from a time when secrecy and suspicion allowed the truth to be concealed.
Author : Simona Sharoni
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849808929
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (498 download)
Download or read book Handbook on Gender and War written by Simona Sharoni and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary Handbook offers a comprehensive and detailed overview of the relationship between gender and war, exploring the conduct of war, its impact, aftermath and opposition to it. Offering sophisticated theoretical insights and empirical research from the First World War to contemporary conflicts around the world, this Handbook underscores the centrality of gender to critical examinations of war.
Author : Nigel West
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1848328958
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)
Download or read book At Her Majestys Secret Service written by Nigel West and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1909, a kindly, balding, figure named Mansfield Smith-Cumming was summoned to London by Admiral Alexander Bethell, Director of Naval Intelligence. He was to assume the inaugural position of Chief – more famously known as ‘C – of what has become
