The urgent, dramatic and untold story of how, for four years, British and Allied codebreakers decrypted secret SS and Gestapo messages detailing the mass killings of the Holocaust, and how the Germans in turn deployed cryptanalysis to try and conceal their persecution of Europe's Jews.[Bokinfo].
For the first time, the remarkable full story of how the Holocaust was fought in Italy is told in English
There isn't any triumph, there isn't any happy ending in the story of Sant'Anna di Stazzema, but there is a resolute affirmation of the continuing strength of the human spirit. At dawn on 12 August 1944, German SS troops arrived in the Tuscan mountain village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
The success of the Allied codebreakers at Bletchley Park was one of the iconic intelligence achievements of World War II, immortalised in films such as The Imitation Game and Enigma. But cracking Enigma was only half of the story. Across the Channel, German intelligence agencies were hard at work breaking British and Allied codes. The Third Reich is Listening is a gripping blend of modern history and science, and describes the successes and failures of Germany's codebreaking and signals intelligence operations from 1935 to 1945. The first mainstream book that takes an in-depth look at German cryptanalysis in World War II, it tells how the Third Reich broke the ciphers of Allied and neutral countries, including Great Britain, France, Russia and Switzerland. This book offers a dramatic new perspective on one of the biggest stories of World War II, using declassified archive material and colourful personal accounts from the Germans at the heart of the story, including a former astronomer who worked out the British order of battle in 1940, a U-Boat commander on the front line of the Battle of the Atlantic, and the German cryptanalyst who broke into and read crucial codes of the British Royal Navy.
Maps /Author's Note /Preface /Part One: Introduction - The Road to the Gothic Line /Part Two: Before the Line /Part Three: On the Line /Part Four: Behind the Line /Part Five: After the Line /Epilogue: What Became of the Characters in the Book /Notes /Index
Preface: This Land is My Land, June 2016 /Author's Note /Maps /Part One: The Fall of Trieste /Part Two: Revenge in Trieste /Part Three: Brinkmanship on the Adriatic /Part Four: Colonialism on the Adriatic /Part Five: War in the Shadows /Part Six: The New Europe /Epilogue: What Became of the Characters in the Book /Appendix: Science Finds the Evidence /Glossary /Notes /Index
A recount of the author's time in the French Foreign Legion, detailing his attachment to the Amphibious Warfare Company in East Africa, his desertion, capture by bounty hunters, and eventual return to Europe in 1986, where he deserted again and successfully reached Britain.