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The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945
Max Hastings
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Description for The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945
Paperback. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
`As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastings's achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject' Sunday Times `Authoritative, exciting and notably well written' Daily Telegraph `A serious work of rigourous and comprehensive history ... royally entertaining and readable' Mail on Sunday In The Secret War, Max ... Read more
`As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastings's achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject' Sunday Times `Authoritative, exciting and notably well written' Daily Telegraph `A serious work of rigourous and comprehensive history ... royally entertaining and readable' Mail on Sunday In The Secret War, Max ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
640
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007503902
SKU
V9780007503902
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
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99-99
About Max Hastings
Max Hastings is the author of twenty-six books, most about conflict, and between 1986 and 2002 served as editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph, then editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes both for journalism and his books, of which the most recent are All Hell Let Loose, Catastrophe and The Secret War, best-sellers translated around the world. ... Read more
Reviews for The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945
`As gripping as any spy thriller. Hastings understands, better than any previous historian, that this is as much a story about human nature as it is about the mechanics of code-breaking or spycraft ... he has the novelist's eye for the telling detail ... this book works because Hastings is simply a very fine writer who is not afraid of ... Read more