ALL PRICES INCLUDE POSTAGE (AIR) AND PACKING Warburton, who went missing while on a mission, to photo interpreters Glyn Daniel, later a famous television personality, and Winston Churchill’s daughter, Sarah, the book makes for compelling reading, and the first full account of the story of aerial photography and the intelligence gleaned from it in nearly fifty years. Hardback 416pp Available from Eye Spy Ref: ES/1440 UK £22.99 USA $35.00 ROW £24.50 IAN FLEMING’S COMMANDOS: The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII Nicholas Rankin Faber and Faber
Rose was a major player in the scheme and was found guilty of conspiring to commit espionage; he was sentenced to a six-year prison term.
BOOK RELEASES BRITAIN’S SECRET WAR 1939 - 1945 Michael Smith Andre Deutsch
operations but also tells the real story of how MI6 turned the disaster of lost networks across Europe into triumph. The stories range from extraordinary ritain’s Secret War tells the courage to the bizarre with even astonishing story of how astrologers and a stage magician Britain’s spies, boffins and brought in to help get intelligence and special operations teams helped to win allied aircrew out of Nazi-occupied the Second World War. The work of Europe. Intelligence historian Michael the Bletchley Park codebreakers in Smith describes the work of all the breaking the German Enigma cipher is participants in the Secret War, estimated to have cut the length of the revealing a host of new heroes, and war by around two years, saving heroines, along the way. countless lives, while the Double Cross system, in which German secret Hardback - special collectors box set. agents were “turned” by the British to Book includes dozens of magnificently feed their Nazi agent-runners with reproduced intelligence documents. false information, ensured the success Available from Eye Spy Ref: ES/1438 of the D-Day landings. UK £32.50 USA $60.00 ROW £36.00
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STALIN’S MAN IN CANADA: Fred Rose and Soviet Espionage David Levy Enigma Books
In November 1953 he returned to his native Poland and passed away in Warsaw in 1983. The key importance of his role is revealed for the first time in this masterful study. Hardback 256pp
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Available from Eye Spy Ref: ES/1439 UK £19.99 USA $35.00 ROW £22.00 SPIES IN THE SKY: The Secret Battle for Aerial Intelligence During WWII Taylor Downing Little, Brown Book Group
pies in the Sky is the thrilling, little known story of the partner organisation to the famous code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park. It is the story of the daring reconnaissance pilots who took aerial photographs over Occupied Europe during the most dangerous days of the Second World War, and of the photo interpreters who invented a completely new science to analyse those pictures. They were inventive and ingenious; they pioneered the development of 3D photography and their work provided vital intelligence throughout the war.
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With a whole host of larger than life characters at its heart, from the legendary pilot Adrian ‘Warby’
red Rose was born in Lublin, Poland, in 1907. He arrived in Canada with his parents who settled in Montreal. Rose became a member of Gaik Ovakimyans North American NKVD network and was involved with Jacob Golos in securing Canadian travel documents for Soviet agents. In 1943 Rose was elected to the federal Canadian parliament from a working class district in Montreal and re-elected in 1945. In September 1945 Soviet specialist Igor Gouzenko defected, revealing an elaborate atomic espionage operation. Fred
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Known as ‘30 Assault Unit’, they took part in the major campaigns of the Second World War, landing on the Normandy beaches and helping to liberate Paris. 30AU’s final amazing coup was to seize the entire archives of the German Navy - thirty tons of documents. Ian Fleming flew out in person to get the loot back to Britain, where it was combed for evidence to use in the Nuremberg trials. In this gripping and highly enjoyable book, Nicholas Rankin, author of the bestselling Churchill’s Wizards, puts 30 Assault Unit’s fascinating story in a strategic and intelligence context. He also argues that Ian Fleming’s Second World War service was one of the most significant periods of his life without this, the most popular spy fiction of the twentieth century would not have been written. Hardback 416pp Available from Eye Spy Ref: ES/1441 UK £22.99 USA $38.00 ROW £24.99
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n 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming was personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence the dynamic figure behind James Bond’s fictional chief, ‘M’. Here, Fleming had a brilliant idea: why not set up a unit of authorised looters, men who would go in hard with the front-line troops and steal enemy intelligence?
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