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Winterbotham, F. W. The Ultra Secret. London, 1974. Winterbotham, a regular air force officer who had served with the Secret Intelligence Service, was posted to the air section of Bletchley during the war. He apparently got permission to publish this book, the first in English to disclose the Ultra Secret (though it had previously been hinted at by Trevor-Roper), because the government feared the secret was about to be broken by the Poles. Largely written from memory, The Ultra Secret contains many errors both of fact and interpretation.
Wohlstetter, R. Pearl Harbor, Warning and Decision. Stanford, 1962. Roberta Wohlstetter’s examination of how Japan succeeded in mounting its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 is meticulous and exhaustive. Her book is widely admired by intelligence experts and, although it is not without its critics, it remains the most valuable study of the preliminaries to the outbreak of the Pacific War.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Keegan’s books have been best sellers here and in Britain. They include The First World War, The Battle for History, The Face of Battle, War and Our World, The Mask of Command, Fields of Battle, and A History of Warfare. He is the defence editor of The Daily Telegraph (London). He lives in Wiltshire, England.
ALSO BY JOHN KEEGAN
The First World War
The Face of Battle
The Nature of War (with Joseph Darracott)
World Armies
Who’s Who in Military History (with Andrew Wheatcroft)
Six Armies in Normandy
Soldiers (with Richard Holmes)
The Mask of Command
The Price of Admiralty
The Second World War
A History of Warfare
Fields of Battle
The Battle for History
War and Our World: The Reith Lectures 1998
An Illustrated History of the First World War
Churchill: A Life
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Keegan, John, [date]
Intelligence in war : knowledge of the enemy from Napoleon to al-Qaeda /
John Keegan.
p. cm.
1. Military intelligence—History. I. Title.
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Maps
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE : Knowledge of the Enemy
CHAPTER TWO : Chasing Napoleon
CHAPTER THREE : Local Knowledge: Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley
CHAPTER FOUR : Wireless Intelligence
CHAPTER FIVE : Crete: Foreknowledge No Help
CHAPTER SIX : Midway: The Complete Intelligence Victory?
CHAPTER SEVEN : Intelligence, One Factor Among Many: The Battle of the Atlantic
CHAPTER EIGHT : Human Intelligence and Secret Weapons
EPILOGUE : Military Intelligence Since 1945
CONCLUSION : The Value of Military Intelligence
References
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