LEADER 03233nam 22004815 450 001 9910793727003321 005 20230817181600.0 010 $a0-300-24901-2 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300249019 035 $a(CKB)4100000008948907 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5844741 035 $a(DE-B1597)536099 035 $a(OCoLC)1121055561 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300249019 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008948907 100 $a20200229h20192019 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Walls Have Ears $eThe Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II /$fHelen Fry 210 1$aNew Haven, CT : $cYale University Press, $d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (351 pages) 311 $a0-300-23860-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tAbbreviations -- $tPrologue. Decades Of Silence -- $t1. The Tower Of London -- $t2. M Room Operations -- $t3. Trent Park -- $t4. Prized Prisoners, Idle Chatter -- $t5. The Spider -- $t6. Battle Of The Generals -- $t7. Mad Hatter's Tea Party -- $t8. Secret Listeners -- $t9. Rocket Science -- $t10. 'Our Guests' -- $t11. Saga Of The Generals -- $t12. War Crimes And The Holocaust -- $t13. Breaking The German Will To Resist -- $t14. British Intelligence, POWs and War Crimes Trials -- $t15. Always Listening -- $tEPILOGUE. Secrets To The Grave -- $tAppendix of Intelligence Staff -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aA 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. 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xSecret service$zGreat Britain 607 $aGreat Britain$2cct 607 $aGreat Britain$2fast 608 $aHistory.$2fast 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xSecret service 676 $a940.548641 686 $aK561.46$2clc 700 $aFry$b Helen, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01579968 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793727003321 996 $aThe Walls Have Ears$93860443 997 $aUNINA