Authors: Juan Pujol Garcia
Operation Garbo (34 page)
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First published in Great Britain in 2000 by Bantam Press
ISBN 978–1–84954–625–6
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SOVIET MILITARY COUNTERINTELLIGENCE IN WWII
VADIM J. BIRSTEIN
In the early James Bond novels 007 is pitched against Smersh, a top secret Soviet agency. Bond’s creator Ian Fleming took his inspiration from true life, but the real Smersh was far more savage than Bond’s fictional nemesis.
Smersh is the acronym for the Russian words ‘Death to spies’ and was a key part of Stalin’s terror apparatus – a collection of torturers and killers unleashed with brutal affect in 1943 to cut a bloody swathe of death across Eastern Europe until being absorbed into the NKVD after the war.
Vadim Birstein makes comprehensive use of recently released Russian military archives in Moscow and speaks to survivors and victims of Smersh to tell, for the first time, one of the darkest stories in Soviet Russia’s history.
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ESCAPE AND EVASION 1939–1945
M. R. D. FOOT & J. M. LANGLEY
Many famous escapes from Nazi-occupied Europe were made possible by a hitherto secret British service: MI9. This small, dedicated and endlessly inventive team constantly exchanged coded letters with prisoner-of-war camps.
Elaborately hidden, it sent in money, maps, clothes, compasses and hacksaws. Understaffed and under-resourced, MI9 nonetheless made a terrific contribution to the Allied war effort, using sheer inventiveness to help free British servicemen trapped overseas and to gather intelligence on the Nazis. First published in 1979, this book tells the full inside story of MI9.
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HOW THE BLETCHLEY PARK CODEBREAKERS HELPED WIN THE WAR
MICHAEL SMITH
The definitive history of Bletchley Park by one of the world’s leading experts on Britain’s spies.
Michael Smith constructs his absorbing narrative around the reminiscences of those who worked and played at Bletchley Park, and their stories add a very human colour to their cerebral activity. The codebreakers of Station X did not win the war but they undoubtedly shortened it, and the lives saved on both sides stand as their greatest achievement.
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