03233nam 22004815 450 991079372700332120230817181600.00-300-24901-210.12987/9780300249019(CKB)4100000008948907(MiAaPQ)EBC5844741(DE-B1597)536099(OCoLC)1121055561(DE-B1597)9780300249019(EXLCZ)99410000000894890720200229h20192019 fg engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Walls Have Ears The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II /Helen FryNew Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2019]©20191 online resource (351 pages)0-300-23860-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Prologue. Decades Of Silence -- 1. The Tower Of London -- 2. M Room Operations -- 3. Trent Park -- 4. Prized Prisoners, Idle Chatter -- 5. The Spider -- 6. Battle Of The Generals -- 7. Mad Hatter's Tea Party -- 8. Secret Listeners -- 9. Rocket Science -- 10. 'Our Guests' -- 11. Saga Of The Generals -- 12. War Crimes And The Holocaust -- 13. Breaking The German Will To Resist -- 14. British Intelligence, POWs and War Crimes Trials -- 15. Always Listening -- EPILOGUE. Secrets To The Grave -- Appendix of Intelligence Staff -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexA 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.World War, 1939-1945Secret serviceGreat BritainGreat BritaincctGreat BritainfastHistory.fastWorld War, 1939-1945Secret service940.548641K561.46clcFry Helen, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1579968DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910793727003321The Walls Have Ears3860443UNINA04744nam 2201057 a 450 991077793500332120230814165906.01-282-38289-697866123828950-520-90575-X10.1525/9780520905757(CKB)1000000000767693(EBL)470894(OCoLC)609850013(SSID)ssj0000359088(PQKBManifestationID)12082864(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000359088(PQKBWorkID)10382261(PQKB)11338523(MiAaPQ)EBC470894(DE-B1597)520814(OCoLC)847617212(DE-B1597)9780520905757(Au-PeEL)EBL470894(CaPaEBR)ebr10676280(CaONFJC)MIL238289(EXLCZ)99100000000076769320130402d1979 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEarly tales & sketchesVolume 11851-1864 /edited by Edgar Marquess Branch and Robert H. Hirst ; with the assistance of Harriet Elinor SmithBerkeley Published for the Iowa Center for Textual Studies by the University of California Press19791 online resource (814 pages)The works of Mark Twain ;v. 15Description based upon print version of record.0-520-03186-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.section 1. Hannibal and the river (1851-1861) -- section 2. Nevada territory (1862-1864).This collection brings together for the first time more than 360 of Mark Twain's short works written between 1851, the year of his first extant sketch, and 1871, when he renounced his ties with the Buffalo Express and the Galaxy, resolving to ";write but little for periodicals hereafter."; In October 1871 Clemens and his family moved to Hartford, where they would live until 1891. No longer a journalist, he was about to complete his second full-length book, Roughing It. The literary apprenticeship that he had begun twenty years before in the print shops of Hannibal, and pursued in the newspaper offices of Virginia City, San Francisco, and Buffalo, had at last come to a close. The selections included in these volumes represent a generous sampling from Mark Twain's most imaginative journalism, a few set speeches, a few poems, and hundreds of tales and sketches recovered from more than fifty newspapers and journals, as well as two dozen unpublished items of various description-the main body of what can now be found of his early literary and subliterary work, though by no means everything written during those twenty years of experimentation. The selections are ordered chronologically and therefore provide a nearly continuous record of the author's literary activity from his earliest juvenilia up through the mature work that he published in the Galaxy, the Buffalo Express, and many other journals.Works of Mark TwainLITERARY CRITICISM / American / Generalbisacsha duel prevented.advice to the unreliable on church going.american authors.american literature.an apology repudiated.buffalo express.carson city.classics.connubial bliss.dog controversy.galaxy.gallant fireman.hannibal.how to cure a cold.humor.journalism.juvenilia.literary criticism.mark twain.more ghosts.nevada.our stock remarks.pah utes.poems.religion.samuel clemens.satire.short fiction.short stories.social commentary.spanish mine.speeches.those blasted children.LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.814/.4Twain Markauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut27404Branch Edgar Marquess1913-2006784150Hirst Robert H1506950Smith Harriet Elinor1489472Iowa Center for Textual Studies.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777935003321Early tales & sketches3737382UNINA