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The walls have ears [electronic resource] : the greatest intelligence operation of World War II / Helen Fry

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Fry, Helen, 1967-
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Greatest intelligence operation of World War II
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
Physical Description
xiv, 319 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Contents
Decades of silence -- The Tower of London -- M Room operations -- Trent Park -- Prized prisoners, idle chatter -- The spider -- Battle of the generals -- Mad Hatter's tea party -- Secret listeners -- Rocket science -- 'Our guests -- Saga of the generals -- War crimes and the Holocaust -- Breaking the German will to resist -- British intelligence, POWs and war crimes trials -- Always listening -- Secrets to the grave.
Summary
A history of the elaborate and brilliantly sustained World War II intelligence operation by which Hitler's generals were tricked into giving away vital Nazi secrets. At the outbreak of World War II, MI6 spymaster Thomas Kendrick arrived at the Tower of London to set up a top secret operation: German prisoners' cells were to be bugged and listeners installed behind the walls to record and transcribe their private conversations. This mission proved so effective that it would go on to be set up at three further sites-and provide the Allies with crucial insight into new technology being developed by the Nazis. In this astonishing history, Helen Fry uncovers the inner workings of the bugging operation. On arrival at stately-homes-turned-prisons like Trent Park, high-ranking German generals and commanders were given a "phony" interrogation, then treated as "guests," wined and dined at exclusive clubs, and encouraged to talk. And so it was that the Allies got access to some of Hitler's most closely guarded secrets and from those most entrusted to protect them
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ISBN
0300238606
9780300238600
9780300254853 (pbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-313) and index.
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