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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This companion to The Dark Game: True Spy Stories introduces the military strategy of deception and examines how it has been used in war over the past 150 years.
From the story of the Trojan horse to today, deceptive techniques have always been used in war. In recent years the technology behind fooling the enemy has evolved dramatically. Janeczko focuses on the American Civil War, World Wars I and II, and the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the...
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Behind the bamboo curtain: Tells the story of hidden factors behind the first conflict of the Cold War, Stalin's influence over Mao Tse Tung and Kim El Sung and U.S. intelligence failures.
Stalin's secret air war: Classified missions over the Yalu set the tenor at the onset of the Cold War. U.N. pilots battled anti-aircraft fire and a mysterious enemy in the skies over Korea. Previously classified telegrams reveal Stalin's personal role in the conflict....
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Their average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, London, Chicago--and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure, or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship as they were forced to adapt to a rugged military town where everything was a secret, including what their husbands were doing at the lab. They lived in barely finished houses with P.O. box addresses in a town wreathed with barbed wire, all for...
Author
Language
English
Description
From the acclaimed author of "Agent Zigzag" comes an extraordinary account of the most successful deception--and certainly the strangest--ever carried out in World War II, one that changed the prospects for an Allied victory. The purpose of the plan--code named Operation Mincemeat--was to deceive the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily, as the Nazis had assumed,...
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