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Source ISBN: 9780007503742
Ebook Edition © September 2015 ISBN: 9780008133023
Version: 2016-02-23
For
WILLIAM and AMELIE
the next generation
Contents
2 THE BRITISH: GENTLEMEN AND PLAYERS
3 THE RUSSIANS: TEMPLES OF ESPIONAGE
3 Miracles Take a Little Longer: Bletchley
6 Muddling and Groping: The Russians at War
7 Britain’s Secret War Machine
8 ‘Mars’: The Bloodiest Deception
9 The Orchestra’s Last Concert