"Winston Churchill once remarked that the secret warfare waged in World War II equaled "the most fantastic inventions of romance and melodrama."" "William Breuer vividly confirms that assessment with these compelling accounts of Allied and Axis intelligence throughout World War II. Here are tales of patriotism and treachery, saboteurs, sleepers, and moles, giving fresh perspectives on the best-known interceptions and deceptions of the war - the breaking of the German code Enigma and the Japanese code Purple, Operation Overlord's successful disguise of the D-Day invasion - as well as little-known feats of civilian bravado in the face of danger."

"Drawn from personal interviews, private correspondence, trial records, and declassified documents from official archives, this volume provides detailed, startling revelations about the secret wars fought behind the battlefields - and the headlines - of World War II."--Jacket

pt. 1.

Heading toward the abyss: Sinister pplots in the "new Germany" ; "Burglars" call on a Japanese spymaster ; Ten moles in Hitler's high command ; A scheme to declare Hitler insane ; Blond beast's ruse backfires ; Did his generals sabotage the Führer? ; Her Serene Highness plots with Goering ; A bizarre kidnapping scheme ; French consul's janitor ; A German general spies on himself ; A baseball player's foresight ; Tailing a Soviet spy in England --

pt. 2.

Lights go out in Europe: A weird hoax to launch a war ; Most secret : defuse the magnetic mines ; Mystery explosion in a Nazi shrine ; Goering hires a rainmaker ; Churchill's amazing gamble ; A covert weather war ; Masquerade on the high seas ; Mazi spies in the U.S. Capitol ; Two tiny tots escape to England ; World's dumbest spy ; Global celebrity a secret agent ; A POWs wife unlocks a code Canada's covert "luxury fleet" ; One airplane infuriates the Führer --

pt. 3.

Thrusts and counterthrusts: A cunning forgery pays off ; Shopping for U.S. secrets ; A scientist on a covert mission ; "Black propaganda" warriors ; A Trojan horse hoax ; Bulldog bites the German Navy ; Keeno, king of the robots ; A German POW makes history ; A kamikaze plan against Pearl Harbor ; Hijacking Mussolini's money ; Hitler's doom seen in the stars ; Abwehr dupe : Vice President Wallace ; Nazis' most unlikely secret agent --

pt. 4.

Conflict spreads around the world: A batty idea for firebombing Tokyo ; FBI nabs a Honolulu "sleeper" ; A French counterfeit traitor ; Their weapons were words ; Peculiar demise of a captured plane ; A bishop in disguise ; Mysterious Inspector Thompson ; A Nazi counterfeiting plot ; A chance meeting in a café ; Hitler's evil guardian angel ; Roosevelt's guest a Nazi spy ; Ruse in a Berlin brothel ; A spy spies on the spymaster --

pt. 5.

Tide turns: A female resistant tricks the Gestapo ; An owner blows up his factory ; A plan to bomb the United States ; Princes and seven thousand Danish JEws ; Eisenhower's secret weapon ; A call for Nazi suicide pilots ; A plot to murder two Allied generals ; Hitlker warned by a female spy ; An alarming breach of security ; Wizard and the mushroom man ; Warning : your submarine may explode ; A puzzling episode in Normandy ; A poison "treatment" for Hitler ; Belgian resistants steal a locomotive ; A German general cuts a strange deal --

pt. 6.

Allied march to victory: The Armée Secrète saves Antwerp ; Machinations at a Dutch hotel ; "Gift-wrapping" a kidnap victim ; An ingenious German deception plan ; Spies warm into the Third Reich ; Blasting doomed resistants to freedom ; Plot to surrender a Nazi army ; A covert plan to seize Berlin ; Urgent : pilfer one hundred huge missiles