The Encyclopedia Of World War Ii Spies

Utilizing information from recently declassified OSS (Office of Strategic Studies) documents obtained from the National Archives, this encyclopedia covers the unsung heroes, villains, organizations, terms, and spy rings of the Allies and Axis espionage organizations during World War Two.

An A to Z encyclopedia of underground spies & traitors who either prolonged World War II or contributed to victory. It contains the names of people, codes, missions & events related to intelligence operations. Here are the heroes & villains, low profile during the conflict, but now publicly revealed as a result of the release of recently declassified documents. Each entry offers historical information, much of which has been under wraps for the more than a half century since VJ-Day. This book tells the stories of these unsung heroes & villains, & how their exploits changed the course of the war, which lasted from 1939 to 1945 & was the defining event of the 20th century.

The only updated Cold War spy encyclopedia in print.

A reference to the ideological, military, political, biographical, and social topics surrounding World War II, which is often considered the pivotal event of the twentieth century.

The only comprehensive and up-to-date book of its kind with the latest information.

In the years immediately following World War II, information was disclosed about what has been termed the shadow war of the existence of hitherto secret agencies. In Germany it was the Abwehr and the Sicherheitsdienst; in Britain it was MI5, the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and Special Operations Executive (SOE); in the United States it was the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the Special Intelligence Service (SIS) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); in Japan it was the Kempet'ai; and in Italy the Servicio di Informazione Militare (SIM). Sixty years after World War II secrets are still being revealed about the covert activities that took place. Many countries had secret agencies maintaining covert operations, but even ostensibly neutral countries also conducted secret operations. Changes in American, British, and even Soviet official attitudes to declassification in the 1980s allowed thousands of secret documents to be made available for public examination, and the result was extensive revisionism of the conventional histories of the conflict, which previously had excluded references to secret intelligence sources. The Historical Dictionary of World War II Intelligence tells the emerging history of the intelligence world during World War II. This is done through a chronology, an introduction, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the secret agencies, operations, and events. The world of double agents, spies, and moles during WWII is explained in the most comprehensive reference currently available.

Biographies of individual spies, incidents, organizations, and techniques from Ellizabethan times up to the 1980s.