Research Catalog

Title

Undercover tales of World War II / William B. Breuer.

Author

Breuer, William B., 1922-2010.

Publication

New York : J. Wiley, ©1999.

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Details

Description

xi, 242 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

Chronicles seventy covert operations and insidious plots that took place during World War II and discusses how they affected the outcome of the war.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• World War, 1939-1945 > Secret service
• Espionage > History > 20th century
• History, 20th Century
• Espionage
• Secret service
• Zweiter Weltkrieg
• Spionage
• Geheimdienst
• World War 1939-1945 > secret service
• world history > 1939-1945
• global studies > literature

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-235) and index.

Contents

A Gathering Tempest -- Black-Bag Jobs and Madam X -- Hitler's Crony a U.S. Secret Agent -- "Me No Here, No Movies!" -- Hitler's "Mystery Spy" in London -- Stealing a Supersecret Bombsight -- Espionage Target: The Panama Canal -- The Gestapo Comes to New York -- Practicing "Nazi Psychology" in the United States -- A Gentleman Farmer Flies to London -- An "Unsportsmanlike" Murder Scheme -- Outbreak of War -- "Take Possession of the [British Captives]" -- Agent X Conspires with the Pope -- The Spy Was a Clip Artist -- Denmark's Patriotic Burglar -- Deceit in the Desert -- The Jewish Pal of the Nazis -- The FBI Undercover in South America -- "War of Nerves" against England -- The Fuhrer's Concrete Crocodiles -- Tuned in to the Luftwaffe -- Hosting a Boy Scout Official -- "We Came to Blow Up America!" -- The Bogus Traitor of Flekkefjord -- A One-Man Cloak-and-Dagger Agency -- Conflict Spreads to the Pacific -- One Briton's Revenge -- Spies inside a U.S. Embassy -- The "Evangelists" of New York Harbor -- Confrontation at a Montana Airport -- Clandestine Payoffs in Mexico -- Urgent: Hide the Suez Canal -- A Covert Cruise in the Pacific -- Four Frogmen against Two Battleships -- The Superspy at Pearl Harbor -- An American Turncoat in Washington -- The Turning Tide -- The World's Richest Spymaster -- The Plot to Blow Up the Pan Am Clipper -- Lady Luck Flies with the Fuhrer -- Rommel's Secret Informant -- The Scientist Who Knew Too Much -- The Dogs of Torigni -- Conspiracy in Casablanca -- Outfoxing the Desert Fox.

ISBN

• 0471318620
• 9780471318620
• 0471379441
• 9780471379447

LCCN

98024119

OCLC

• ocm39069533
• 39069533
• SCSB-574118

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library