Secret Alliances: Special Operations and Intelligence in Norway 1940-1945 - The British Perspective - Couverture rigide

Insall, Tony

 
9781785904776: Secret Alliances: Special Operations and Intelligence in Norway 1940-1945 - The British Perspective
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ISBN 10 : 1785904779 ISBN 13 : 9781785904776
Editeur : Biteback Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

In this extraordinary book, historian Tony Insall reveals how some of the most striking achievements of the Norwegian resistance were the detailed reports produced by intelligence agents living in the dangerous conditions of the country's desolate wilderness.

A definitive appraisal of Anglo-Norwegian WWII cooperation, Secret Alliancesprovides remarkable insights into the uniquely close political relationship that afforded powerful assistance for a successful resistance movement. Using previously unpublished archival material from London, Oslo and Moscow, Insall explores how SIS and SOE developed productive links with their Norwegian counterparts and examines the crucial intelligence from the Security Service and Bletchley Park codebreakers who supported their sabotage operations.

Offering dramatic details on operations such as Gunnerside which targeted the heavy water plant in Vemork in order to foil the Nazis plans to build an atomic bomb and the sinking of the Tirpitz in November 1944, Secret Alliances is an authoritative new perspective on some of the most remarkable exploits of the Second World War.

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À propos de l?auteur

Dr Tony Insall worked for more than thirty years in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and served in Nigeria, Hong Kong, China and Malaysia, before spending five years in Norway. He was also an associate editor of FCO Historians and has published several books and articles on Norwegian history. He is a senior visiting fellow in the Department of War Studies at King's College London and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He lives near Guildford in Surrey.

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Éditeur
Biteback Publishing
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1785904779
ISBN 13 
9781785904776
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
464
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9781785906619: Secret Alliances: Special Operations and Intelligence in Norway 1940-1945

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ISBN 10 :  1785906615 ISBN 13 :  9781785906619
Editeur : Biteback Publishing, 2021
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