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Spies in the Sky: The Secret Battle for Aerial Intelligence During World War II [Kietas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Hardback, 416 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 240x160x36 mm, weight: 795 g, Section: 16, b/w photos
  • Išleidimo metai: 15-Sep-2011
  • Leidėjas: Little, Brown
  • ISBN-10: 1408702800
  • ISBN-13: 9781408702802
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Hardback, 416 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 240x160x36 mm, weight: 795 g, Section: 16, b/w photos
  • Išleidimo metai: 15-Sep-2011
  • Leidėjas: Little, Brown
  • ISBN-10: 1408702800
  • ISBN-13: 9781408702802
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
SPIES IN THE SKY is the thrilling, little known story of the partner organisation to the famous code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park. It is the story of the daring reconnaissance pilots who took aerial photographs over Occupied Europe during the most dangerous days of the Second World War, and of the photo interpreters who invented a completely new science to analyse those pictures. They were inventive and ingenious; they pioneered the development of 3D photography and their work provided vital Intelligence throughout the war. With a whole host of larger than life characters at its heart, from the legendary pilot Adrian 'Warby' Warburton, who went missing while on a mission, to photo interpreters Glyn Daniel, later a famous television personality, and Winston Churchill's daughter, Sarah, SPIES IN THE SKY is compelling reading, and the first full account of the story of aerial photography and the Intelligence gleaned from it in nearly fifty years.

Recenzijos

As Taylor Downing's superbly researched and fluently written Spies in the Sky proves, just as important to victory in the Second World War as the code-breakers at Bletchley Park were the photo interpreters of Danesfield House at Medmenham...Downing faces head-on the charges that photo intelligence failed the Allies when it came to identifying Auschwitz and Hitler's plans for the Battle of the Bulge, and he convinces. Staffed with larger-than-life characters such as Professor R.V. Jones, the lovely Connie Babington Smith, John Merrifield (who photographed a V-1 being test-launched) and Michael Suckling (who spotted the Bismarck), Spies in the Sky fills in a huge gap in Second World War historiography in both an exciting and intellectually stimulating way. No-one will be able to write a history of the conflict again without giving Medmenham its central role in Allied Intelligence-gathering. -- Andrew Roberts, Author Of The Storm Of War

Daugiau informacijos

Short-listed for Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature 2012.* The thrilling story of the brains behind those who helped Britain win WW2
Prologue 1(8)
Introduction 9(16)
1 Secret Missions
25(14)
2 Sid Cotton's Air Force
39(20)
3 Crisis
59(23)
4 Medmenham
82(16)
5 The Mad Men of Ham
98(14)
6 Boffins at War
112(19)
7 A Rare Form of Bravery
131(28)
8 The `Warby' Legend
159(15)
9 Finding the Targets
174(20)
10 Assessing the Damage
194(14)
11 To the Mediterranean and India
208(16)
12 Arguments with Allies
224(12)
13 Planning for Overlord
236(20)
14 Special Operations
256(20)
15 Hunting the Vengeance Weapons
276(35)
16 Towards Victory
311(15)
17 `80 per cent of All Intelligence'?
326(17)
Epilogue 343(10)
Author's Note 353(3)
Acknowledgements 356(3)
Glossary 359(4)
Notes 363(28)
Bibliography 391(1)
Index 391(16)
About the Author 407
Taylor Downing was educated at Cambridge and went on to become Managing Director and Head of History at Flashback Television.