Author | : Nicholas Rankin |
Publsiher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2008-09-18 |
ISBN 10 | : 057124789X |
ISBN 13 | : 9780571247899 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
The real story of how Winston Churchill and the British mastered deception to defeat the Nazis - by conning the Kaiser, hoaxing Hitler and using brains to outwit brawn. By June 1940, most of Europe had fallen to the Nazis and Britain stood alone. So, with Winston Churchill in charge the British bluffed their way out of trouble, drawing on the trickery which had helped them win the First World War. They broadcast outrageous British propaganda on pretend German radio stations, broke German secret codes and eavesdropped on their messages. Every German spy in Britain was captured and many were used to send back false information to their controllers. Forged documents misled their intelligence. Bogus wireless traffic from entire phantom armies, dummy airfields with model planes, disguised ships and inflatable rubber tanks created a vital illusion of strength. Culminating in the spectacular misdirection that was so essential to the success of D-Day in 1944, Churchill's Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914-1945 is a thrilling work of popular military history filled with almost unbelievable stories of bravery, creativity and deception. Nicholas Rankin is the author of Dead Man's Chest, Telegram From Guernica and Ian Fleming's Commandos. 'This is a story clamouring to be told. We could not have imagined the scope of the inventiveness, the daring of these people's imaginations . . . I could not stop reading this book.' Doris Lessing
Churchill s Deception
Author | : Louis C. Kilzer |
Publsiher | : Anonim |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 1994 |
ISBN 10 | : |
ISBN 13 | : UOM:39015032978291 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist exposes one of World War II's darkest secrets: that Churchill tricked Hitler into invading Russia by setting up a phony peace between Germany and Britain. Ellie mae encompass for mac.
The DeValera Deception
Author | : Patrick McMenamin ,Michael McMenamin |
Publsiher | : First Edition Design Pub. |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2018-05-04 |
ISBN 10 | : 1506906052 |
ISBN 13 | : 9781506906058 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
In the summer of 1929 Weimar Germany still has a secret military agreement with the USSR to develop new weapons beyond the Ural Mountains. Ultimately, both want to dismember the newly revived independent Poland, but to distract Britain from helping the Poles, the new Irish Free State is placed at risk by conspirators and arms dealers intent on fomenting an IRA coup d'état. Winston Churchill is about to travel to North America when the new Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald asks him to handle a secret assignment. The IRA intends to buy large quantities of arms in the United States and an SIS team will investigate. Churchill is to enlist American President Herbert Hoover to prevent the weapons from reaching Ireland. But Churchill has his own unofficial team gather evidence as well. Bourke Cockran Jr., a law professor and former military intelligence agent, is the son of Churchill's old Irish American mentor. Mattie McGary, Churchill's goddaughter, works for William Randolph Hearst. Attracted to each other, their tempers often clash as Cockran and Mattie follow a trail from New York to Los Angeles through Canada to discover who is funding the IRA and where the arms are assembled. But Mattie is also keeping secrets from Cockran, who has an agenda of revenge: to kill the leader of the IRA team who is responsible for the murder of his wife in the Irish Civil War. These plans interfere with foiling the arms shipment and an IRA plot to assassinate Churchill. And time is running out . . . Keywords: Churchill, Hitler, Weimar Germany, Irish Free State, IRA, Poland, Anti-Semitism, Nazi
Winston S Churchill Road to Victory 1941 1945
Author | : Martin Gilbert |
Publsiher | : Rosetta Books |
Total Pages | : 1369 |
Release | : 2015-04-06 |
ISBN 10 | : 079534466X |
ISBN 13 | : 9780795344664 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
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One of history's greatest figures guides his nation to victory in the seventh volume of the acclaimed biographical masterpiece. This seventh volume in the epic, multivolume biography of Winston Churchill takes up the story of 'Churchill's War' with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and carries it on to the triumph of V-E Day, May 8, 1945, the end of the war in Europe. Gilbert charts Churchill's tortuous course through the storms of Anglo-American and Anglo-Soviet suspicion and rivalry and between the clashing priorities and ambitions of other forces embattled against the common enemy: between General de Gaulle and his compatriots in France and the French Empire; between Tito and other Yugoslav leaders; between the Greek Communists and monarchists; between the Polish government exiled in London and the Soviet-controlled 'Lublin' Poles. Amid all these cares and dangers Churchill had to find the course of prudence, of British national interest, and, above all, of the earliest possible victory over Nazism. In doing so he was guided by the most secret sources of British Intelligence: the daily interception of the messages of the German High Command. These pages reveal, as never before, the links between this secret information and the resulting moves and successes achieved by the Allies. 'A milestone, a monument, a magisterial achievement . . . rightly regarded as the most comprehensive life ever written of any age.' —Andrew Roberts, historian and author of The Storm of War 'The most scholarly study of Churchill in war and peace ever written.' —Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times
When Presidents Lie
Author | : Eric Alterman |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2005-10 |
ISBN 10 | : 9780143036043 |
ISBN 13 | : 0143036041 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
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Assesses the impact of governmental and presidential lies on American culture, revealing how such lies become ever more complex and how such deception creates problems far more serious than those lied about in the beginning.
The Fluoride Deception
Author | : Christopher Bryson |
Publsiher | : Seven Stories Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2004 |
ISBN 10 | : 9781583225264 |
ISBN 13 | : 1583225269 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
This book reveals a labyrinth of connecting conspiracies buried within and by the military, industry scientists and public health officials who suspiciously rallied to cover key information about fluoride's potential for human harm. Bryson shows us how it is not only fluoride's use in dentistry which is poisoning the public, but also through air pollution damaging our central nervous systems and possibly causing a host of modern illnesses, including arthritis, cancer and Alzheimer's. A disturbing yet gripping read which will instil a dark sense of doubt in any reader.
Winston S Churchill 1874 1965
Author | : Eugene L. Rasor |
Publsiher | : Greenwood Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2000 |
ISBN 10 | : 9780313305467 |
ISBN 13 | : 0313305463 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
The most extensive and up-to-date bibliographic and historiographical survey of works by and about Churchill.
A Genius for Deception
Author | : Nicholas Rankin |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2009-11-10 |
ISBN 10 | : 0199739501 |
ISBN 13 | : 9780199739509 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
In February 1942, intelligence officer Victor Jones erected 150 tents behind British lines in North Africa. 'Hiding tanks in Bedouin tents was an old British trick,' writes Nicholas Rankin. German general Erwin Rommel not only knew of the ploy, but had copied it himself. Jones knew that Rommel knew. In fact, he counted on it--for these tents were empty. With the deception that he was carrying out a deception, Jones made a weak point look like a trap. In A Genius for Deception, Nicholas Rankin offers a lively and comprehensive history of how Britain bluffed, tricked, and spied its way to victory in two world wars. As Rankin shows, a coherent program of strategic deception emerged in World War I, resting on the pillars of camouflage, propaganda, secret intelligence, and special forces. All forms of deception found an avid sponsor in Winston Churchill, who carried his enthusiasm for deceiving the enemy into World War II. Rankin vividly recounts such little-known episodes as the invention of camouflage by two French artist-soldiers, the creation of dummy airfields for the Germans to bomb during the Blitz, and the fabrication of an army that would supposedly invade Greece. Sinutrain crack. Strategic deception would be key to a number of WWII battles, culminating in the massive misdirection that proved critical to the success of the D-Day invasion in 1944. Deeply researched and written with an eye for telling detail, A Genius for Deception shows how the British used craft and cunning to help win the most devastating wars in human history.
Oliver Cromwell D De Foe Sir R Steele C Churchill S Foote Biographical essays Third edition
Author | : John FORSTER (Barrister-at-Law, of the Inner Temple.) |
Publsiher | : Anonim |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 1860 |
ISBN 10 | : |
ISBN 13 | : BL:A0017078333 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
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Winston S Churchill
Author | : Gerald Flurry,Philadelphia Church of God |
Publsiher | : Philadelphia Church of God |
Total Pages | : 73 |
Release | : 2013-10-17 |
ISBN 10 | : |
ISBN 13 | : |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
There has probably never been a greater political watchman than Winston Churchill. His foresight saved the Western world from demise in World War II. Yet today, the West scorns his message. The biggest tragedy of World War II is that we didn't learn from that shameful and near-fatal disaster. In this booklet: • Winston S. Churchill: The Watchman • Learning From History • Preparing for War • Illusion of Security • Winston S. Churchill: The Leader • A Final Warning
Winston S Churchill
Author | : Martin Gilbert |
Publsiher | : Anonim |
Total Pages | : 967 |
Release | : 1975 |
ISBN 10 | : 9780395131534 |
ISBN 13 | : 0395131537 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Trump and Churchill
Author | : Nick Adams |
Publsiher | : Post Hill Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2020-05-19 |
ISBN 10 | : 1642934704 |
ISBN 13 | : 9781642934700 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
What do Winston Churchill—the eloquent, eternally quotable wordsmith, pudgy politician of fifty years, wealthy aristocrat, war-time Prime Minister of England—and Donald Trump, the 6'4', brash, Twitter happy, political neophyte, billionaire entrepreneur—have in common? In his new book, complete with never-before-told anecdotes, bestselling author Nick Adams explores how both leaders, with seemingly nothing in common, turned their day's prevailing politics on its head. In doing so, they both endured shockingly similar battles instigated by the political establishment seeking their destruction. Trump and Churchill's unorthodox approach to both domestic and international relations has rescued Western Civilization from the brink.
Historical and Biographical Essays Biographical Daniel DeFoe Sir Richard Steele Charles Churchill Samuel Foote
Author | : John Forster |
Publsiher | : Anonim |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 1858 |
ISBN 10 | : |
ISBN 13 | : UOM:39015051396615 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
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Winston S Churchill s Theory of Public Speaking as Compared to His Practice
Author | : Gwendoline Lilian Reid |
Publsiher | : Anonim |
Total Pages | : 822 |
Release | : 1987 |
ISBN 10 | : |
ISBN 13 | : MINN:31951001938822E |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
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The Great Deception
Author | : Christopher Booker,Richard North |
Publsiher | : Burns & Oates |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2003 |
ISBN 10 | : |
ISBN 13 | : UOM:39015057641105 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
As the European Union moves next year towards adopting the constitution which will mark its final emergence as a 'United States of Europe.' The Great Deception shows how the most ambitious political project of our time has, for more than 50 years, been based on a colossal confidence trick--the systematic concealment from the peoples of Europe of what the aim of this project has always been since its inception in the late 1940s. As it reveals for the first time the true story behind the long-term plan to build a politically united Europe, the authors show how all previous attempts to reconstruct the history of this project--whether written by Europhiles of Eurosceptics--have got it wrong, at almost every step along the way. With all the suspense of a detective story, drawing on thousands of books, paper and official documents, many of which have only become publicly available in the past few years, the book traces how a handful of determined visionaries set out more than half a century ago to weld the countries of Europe into a single political state. The Great Deception should immediately become a standard reference work for all students of politics. Yet so disturbing is the picture that emerges that, at a time when Britain's future in the EU is a subject of national debate, it will also spark much wider concern.
A Treasury of Deception
Author | : Michael Farquhar |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2005 |
ISBN 10 | : 9780143035442 |
ISBN 13 | : 0143035444 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Presents a look at some of the greatest deceptions in history, from the forged document that the Vatican used to lay claim to much of Europe, to the authorship of Hitler's diaries, to other great con artists, imposters, and scientific frauds.
Web of Deceit
Author | : Barry Lando |
Publsiher | : Anchor Canada |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2010-08-27 |
ISBN 10 | : 0385672888 |
ISBN 13 | : 9780385672887 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
An investigative history of Western complicity in Saddam Hussein's crimes reveals the story his trial never will. In February 1991, the Shia of southern Iraq rose against Saddam Hussein. Barry M. Lando, a former investigative producer for 60 Minutes, argues compellingly that this ill-fated uprising represents one instance among many of Western complicity in Saddam Hussein's crimes against humanity. The Shia were responding to the call for rebellion from President George H.W. Bush that was broadcast repeatedly across Iraq by clandestine CIA stations. But, just as the revolution was on the brink of success, the United States and its allies turned their backs. In the end, tens of thousands were massacred. Because of restrictions imposed by the Special Tribunal prosecuting Saddam Hussein, the extensive role of the U.S. and its allies in his crimes will never be explored at his trial. But as Web of Deceit demonstrates, the nations that now denounce Saddam most prominently secretly backed the dictator from his rise to power in the 1960s and ‘70s to his offensives in Iran and, despite warnings, took no action to stop his invasion of Kuwait. They also turned their backs when he used chemical weapons against the Iraqi people and persisted in international sanctions long after they had proved ineffective and, for hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, lethal. Web of Deceit draws on a wide range of journalism and scholarship to present a complete picture of what really happened in Iraq under Saddam, detailing – for the first time – the complicity of the West in its full and alarming extent. From the Hardcover edition.
Deception in War
Author | : Jon Latimer |
Publsiher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2003-04-29 |
ISBN 10 | : 1590209362 |
ISBN 13 | : 9781590209363 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
While the battle for air supremacy is being waged in the skies, the coalition forces pull off a stunning, and ultimately decisive, deception. Later dubbed the 'Hail Mary Pass,†? it consists of the abrupt relocation of the coalition ground forces hundreds of miles to the West. Meanwhile, as inflatable decoys, deceptive radio transmissions, and psyops leaflets all lead them to believe, the Iraqis are expecting an amphibious assault from the Persian Gulf, hundreds of miles from where it is actually occurring. The world's fourth largest army is preparing to engage a horde of phantoms. The coalition forces are able to march deep into Iraq with little opposition. Within one hundred days, Kuwait City is liberated and a decisive victory by the coalition forces is won. Deception on the battlefield is surely as old as warfare itself. The examples stretch from the very beginnings of recorded military history—Pharaoh Ramses II's campaign against the Hittites in 1294 B.C.—to modern times, when technology has placed a stunning array of devices into the arsenals of military commanders. Military historians often underestimate the importance of deception in warfare. This book is the first to fully describe its value. Jon Latimer shows how simple some tricks have been, but also how technology has increased the range and subtlety of what is possible—bogus radio traffic, virtual images, even false smells. He draws examples from land, sea, and air to show how great commanders have always had, as Winston Churchill put it, that indispensable 'element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten.†?
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Author | : J. Bowyer Bell |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 479 |
Release | : 2017-09-04 |
ISBN 10 | : 1351529269 |
ISBN 13 | : 9781351529266 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
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Cheating and deception are terms often used but rarely defined. They summon up unpleasant connotations; even those deeply involved with cheating and deception rationalize why they have been driven to it. Particularly for Americans and much of Western civilization, official cheating, government duplicity, cheating as policy, and conscious, contrived deception, are all unacceptable except as a last resort in response to threat of extinction. As a distasteful tool, deception is rarely used to achieve national interests, unless in relation to the deployment of military force. As an area of study, it has by and large been ignored.Intrigued by attitudes toward cheating and deception, the authors decided to analyze its roots, structure, and process. They asked fundamental questions: are there categories of deception, general steps in the process of deception, and ways to evaluate its results across time and in different modes? The book that results is a typology of kinds of deception, beginning with military deception, but extending into other categories and stages.In his introduction to this new edition, Bell outlines how the book came to be written, describes the mixed emotions toward the subject displayed by govenmental and nongovernmental funding sources, and speculates about its critical and commercial reception. He discusses widespread new interest in the subject, the research that has been undertaken since this book was first published, and its limitations.This book provides a general overview of this complex subject, creating a framework for analysis of specific instances of cheating or deception. It will be of particular interest to political scientists, those interested in military affairs and strategy, and psychologists. The general reader will find the book written with a light touch, drawing examples of cheating and deception in the pursuit of love and money. The specialist reader will be intrigued by its broad-ranging examples drawn from policy and politics,