Espionage and codebreaking have, throughout history, been instrumental in the rise, fall, and preservation of world powers.
In STEALING SECRETS, TELLING LIES James Gannon provides the full story behind the critical intelligence breakthroughs that helped alter the course of history in the twentieth century.
The interception of the Zimmerman Telegram, the deciphering of the German Enigma machine, the Soviet's damaging penetration of the British Foreign Service through the "Cambridge Five" spy ring, and the U.S. counterintelligence coup known as Operation Venona
(still secret until 1995) are just some of the episodes detailed here.
352 pages.