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War of Shadows - Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East (Paperback)
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War of Shadows - Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East (Paperback)
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In this World War II military history, Rommel's army is a day from
Cairo, a week from Tel Aviv, and the SS is ready for action.
Espionage brought the Nazis this far, but espionage can stop
them-if Washington wakes up to the danger. As World War II raged in
North Africa, General Erwin Rommel was guided by an uncanny sense
of his enemies' plans and weaknesses. In the summer of 1942, he led
his Axis army swiftly and terrifyingly toward Alexandria, with the
goal of overrunning the entire Middle East. Each step was informed
by detailed updates on British positions. The Nazis, somehow, had a
source for the Allies' greatest secrets. Yet the Axis powers were
not the only ones with intelligence. Brilliant Allied
cryptographers worked relentlessly at Bletchley Park, breaking down
the extraordinarily complex Nazi code Enigma. From decoded German
messages, they discovered that the enemy had a wealth of inside
information. On the brink of disaster, a fevered and high-stakes
search for the source began. War of Shadows is the cinematic story
of the race for information in the North African theater of World
War II, set against intrigues that spanned the Middle East. Years
in the making, this book is a feat of historical research and
storytelling, and a rethinking of the popular narrative of the war.
It portrays the conflict not as an inevitable clash of heroes and
villains but a spiraling series of failures, accidents, and
desperate triumphs that decided the fate of the Middle East and
quite possibly the outcome of the war.
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