Stealing Secrets, Telling Lies: How Spies and Codebreakers Helped Shape the Twentieth Century

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James Gannon examines the impact of many major incidents, such as the Zimmerman telegram interception, deciphering the German Enigma machine, the Soviets' damaging penetration of the British Foreign Service through the ""Cambridge Five"" spy ring, and the U.S. counterintelligence coup known as Operation Venona (classified until 1995). Cover Contents Preface Introduction: Information, Please! Part 1: THE GREAT WAR 1. Herr Zimmermann's Fatal Blunder Part 2: THE CIPHER WAR 2. The Enigma Demystified 3. The Longest Battle 4. Outfoxing the Desert Fox 5. Colossus 6. Who Broke Purple? 7. Masters of Deception Part 3: THE ESPIONAGE WAR 8. Learned Spies 9. ""Lucy, "" Man of Mystery Part 4: THE PACIFIC WAR 10. Infamy and Sacred Duty 11. ""Our Man in Tokyo"" Part 5: THE COLD WAR 12. The Spy Who Knew Everything 13. The Spy of the Century 14. Speak, Ciphers! 15. Exposing Comrade Bluster. 16. Workers against the Workers' StateNotes Bibliography Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.