The Secrets Of Station 14

Author : Des Turner
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750999830

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The Secrets of Station 14 by Des Turner Pdf

Briggens House, near Harlow in Essex, was one of the most important of the establishments requisitioned by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. Its mission was to accomplish Winston Churchill's directive to 'set Europe ablaze', and, initially, the house was used as a finishing school for the Cichociemni, elite Polish saboteurs, to prepare to parachute into Nazi-occupied Poland. In need of false identity documents to avoid the arrest, interrogation and execution of its agents, SOE gradually built up a printing department on site and Station 14 became the organisation's False Document Section. This is the true story of the house and its highly skilled wartime personnel, including British officers, Polish agents and the women of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. For the resident staff it was a relatively safe posting, but tension built as the Poles, fighting their own battle for Polish independence, competed for scarce resources in wartime Britain. SOE historian Des Turner uses first-hand accounts, memoirs and official records to reveal long-forgotten stories of tragedy, humour and frustration, giving long-overdue credit to the men and women of Briggens House who were prevented by the Secrets Act from ever speaking about their wartime work.

Author : Michael Smith
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849542623

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The Secrets of Station X by Michael Smith Pdf

The astonishing story of how the British codebreakers of Bletchley Park cracked the Nazi Enigma cyphers, cutting an estimated two years off the Second World War, never ceases to amaze. No one is better placed to tell that story than Michael Smith, whose number one bestseller Station X was one of the earliest accounts. Using recently released secret files, along with personal interviews with many of the codebreakers themselves, Smith now provides the definitive account of everything that happened at Bletchley Park during the war, from breaking the German, Italian and Japanese codes to creating the world's first electronic computer. The familiar picture of Bletchley Park is of eccentric elderly professors breaking German codes, but in fact the vast majority of people who worked at Bletchley Park were young women. For them and for the young graduates plucked from Britain's best universities who did the bulk of the day-to-day codebreaking, this was truly the time of their lives. The Secrets of Station X tells their story in full, providing an enthralling account of one of the most remarkable British success stories of all time.

Author : Nigel West
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750987387

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Churchill's Spy Files by Nigel West Pdf

The Second World War saw the role of espionage, secret agents and spy services increase exponentially as the world was thrown into a conflict unlike any that had gone before it. At this time, no one in government was really aware of what MI5 and its brethren did. But with Churchill at the country's helm, it was decided to let him in on the secret, providing him with a weekly report of the spy activities. These reports were so classified that he was handed each report personally and copies were never allowed to be made, nor was he allowed to keep hold of them. Even now, the documents only exist as physical copies deep in the archives, many pages annotated by hand by 'W.S.C.' himself. In Churchill's Spy Files intelligence expert Nigel West unravels the tales of hitherto unknown spy missions, using this groundbreaking research to paint a fresh picture of the worldwide intelligence scene of the Second World War.

Author : David Kenyon
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300244809

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Bletchley Park and D-Day by David Kenyon Pdf

“Demonstrates that the intelligence division . . . had a more significant role in WWII . . . making indispensable contributions to the invasion at Normandy.” (Publishers Weekly) The untold story of Bletchley Park's key role in the success of the Normandy campaign Since the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has become one of the most famous stories of the Second World War. But cracking the Nazis’ codes was only the start of the process. Thousands of secret intelligence workers were then involved in making crucial information available to the Allied leaders and commanders who desperately needed it. Using previously classified documents, David Kenyon casts the work of Bletchley Park in a new light, as not just a codebreaking establishment, but as a fully developed intelligence agency. He shows how preparations for the war’s turning point—the Normandy Landings in 1944—had started at Bletchley years earlier, in 1942, with the careful collation of information extracted from enemy signals traffic. This account reveals the true character of Bletchley's vital contribution to success in Normandy, and ultimately, Allied victory.

Author : Hank Bordowitz
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781569763919

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Dirty Little Secrets of the Record Business by Hank Bordowitz Pdf

For disgruntled music fans wondering why music played on the radio is not only worse now than in the past but also not nearly as revelatory as it once was, this book presents a detailed discussion of how the record business fouled its own livelihood. This insightful dissection covers numerous aspects of the industry's failures and shortcomings, including why stockholders play an important role, how radio went from an art to a science and what was lost in that change, how the record companies alienated their core audience, why file sharing might not be the bogeyman that the record industry would have people think, technology's effects on what and how music is heard, and dozens of other reasons that add up to the record industry's current financial and artistic woes. With eye-opening observations culled from extensive interviews, this expose offers insights into how this multi-billion-dollar industry is run and why it's losing so much money.

Author : Patrick A. Kelley
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781105056123

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Imperial Secrets: Remapping the Mind of Empire by Patrick A. Kelley Pdf

Major Kelley chooses three empires with which to compare our current intelligence circumstances. Each of these faced challenges in understanding peoples; Rome in the first and second centuries AD, the Ottomans in the 16th to 18th, and Britain in India in the 18th to early 20th. Kelley feels these warrant study in light of our need to deal with peoples whom we may seek to influence. The author also asks: ?If power shapes knowledge, does knowledge also shape power This is a delightful exercise in erudition in which key postmodern insights and reasoning are used to gain political understanding. Full of surprises and insights, Kelley takes his readers through an enchanted forest peopled by Foucalt, T.E. Lawrence, J.S. Bach, Borges, Idries Shah, Hobsbawm, Jung, Baudrillard, and many more. One hopes our educated, certified, and degreed military and intelligence leadership can penetrate a work this rich, deep, and ultimately useful. (Originally published in color by the NDIC Press)

Author : Patrick A. Kelley
Publisher : Defense Department
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : MSU:31293028916280

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Imperial Secrets by Patrick A. Kelley Pdf

Patrick Kelley explores the limits of institutional knowledge regarding information gathering and knowledge in imperial political structures. The author explores how an empire's culture can shape the information it receives and its ability to process information. The book ranges across time to examine the achievements and failures of empires to use information as a tool of governance and domination.

Author : Jean Sasson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473526051

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Princess: Secrets to Share by Jean Sasson Pdf

After the recent success of Princess, More Tears to Cry the Princess Al-Saud and Jean Sasson are collaborating on this new book to bring readers up to date not only with the Princess and her family but the stories and experiences of characters who formed the focus of the last book: Dr Meena - the woman who helps abused women to heal and fight for their rights, and Fatima, the mother of twin daughters who, once abused and abandoned by her family, now works for the Princess in one of the royal palaces. Here too, are the stories of other Muslim women - women who are struggling with human rights abuses from across the region - from Pakistan, Syria and Northern Lebanon - and the many innocent victims who suffer the consequences of ISIS's march across the Middle East. This new book will attract both Jean Sasson's many loyal readers and new audiences eager to learn more about not only how the Saudi Royal family live, but how with courage and determination the Princess continues the fight for equal rights for women in the Middle East.

Author : John Newton Brown,George Palmer Tyler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1338 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Missions
ISBN : UOM:39015039601375

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Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge by John Newton Brown,George Palmer Tyler Pdf

Author : John Newton Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1336 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Missions
ISBN : NYPL:33433086466541

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Fessenden & Co.'s Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge by John Newton Brown Pdf

Author : Sewall Menzel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216127369

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The Pearl Harbor Secret by Sewall Menzel Pdf

This book provides a penetrating look into Franklin D. Roosevelt's strategy to bait Adolf Hitler into declaring war on America in order to defeat Germany militarily, thus preventing the Nazis from developing the atomic bomb. In late 1939, President Roosevelt learned that Hitler was attempting to develop an atomic bomb to use against the United States. The president responded by directing his own scientific community to develop an atomic bomb and began making plans to go to war with Germany. However, he was hampered by public opinion, with 80 percent of the American people against U.S. involvement in another ground war in Europe. Roosevelt seized an opportunity in 1940, when Japan and Nazi Germany formed a military alliance. To bait Germany into war, FDR shut down Japan's war-making economy, prompting Tokyo to attack Pearl Harbor. A few days later, Hitler declared war on America. Using declassified documents, this book shows how Pearl Harbor was not about Japan; it was about the United States going to war with Germany. It reveals how the U.S. Navy's intelligence gathering system could break virtually any Japanese naval code, but Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, was kept in the dark about the impending Pearl Harbor attack by his own government.

Author : Patrick Lee
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250030818

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Dark Site by Patrick Lee Pdf

From the author of Runner, Sam Dryden comes under attack from unknown forces as an unremembered episode from his past threatens more than just his life. On an otherwise normal morning, former Special Forces operative Sam Dryden is the target of an unsuccessful attempted abduction. Using his attacker's cellphone, he learns that another person, a woman named Danica Ellis, is also being targeted. Dryden arrives just in time to save Danica from the assault team sent after her. But neither of them recognize the other, or have any idea why they are being targeted. The only clue is a heavily redacted, official-looking document given to Danica by her stepfather before he was killed. Dryden immediately recognizes it as a "scrub file." A scrub file is a record of what a subject knew before their memories were chemically destroyed. The redacted document refers to witnesses to a secret military site in Ashland, Iowa in 1989. Both Dryden and Danica Ellis lived in Ashland in 1989, when they were both twelve years old, though neither of them has any memory of the other. Switching back and forth between the present day, when Dryden and Danica try to elude the forces that are after them, and the past in Ashland, Iowa, when both were twelve, making a discovery that forever changed their lives, this latest Sam Dryden novel proves yet again that Patrick Lee is one of the most original, compelling thriller writers today.

Author : Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Husayni Tihrani
Publisher : ICAS Press
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781907905339

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Liberated Soul: In Memory of Sayyid Hashim Haddad by Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Husayni Tihrani Pdf

Liberated Soul, a translation of the Persian work Ruh-i Mujarrad, is a tribute to a less-known, yet profound Muslim mystic of the twentieth century, Sayyid Hashim Haddad (1900-1984), written soon after his death by one of his top students in spirituality. The author introduces and expounds on Haddad’s character and principles as he discusses his journeys to Karbala to meet his spiritual master. The book also includes a rich selection of Arabic and Persian mystical poems which have been elegantly rendered into English, enabling the reader to have a taste of the mystical tradition. The book features an extensive section on Ibn ʿArabi’s Shiʿi inclinations, and his theory of wahdat al-wujud. There was a man who did not want to lose his ‘self’. So he pierced a gourd and hung it around his neck with a string so that he would be able to find and identify himself… Until one night, when he was travelling with a friend, his friend got up in the middle of the night, gently took the gourd off his neck, put it around his own, and went back to sleep…. - From the book A superb translation of a major work on the gnostic dimension of Shiʿi Islam. Rarely has such eloquent, and credible, tribute been paid by a disciple to his master. - Prof. Hamid Algar, University of California, Berkeley Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Tihrani was certainly one of our contemporary mystics. His Ruh-i Mujarrad is surely accessible to everyone. - K. M. Haqiqi, former student of Ayatollah Ansari Hamadani and Ayatollah Najabat Shirazi I found Haddad to be a paragon of annihilation in God, and I found myself like a child in his mother’s embrace. He trained me with his breath, his intimations, and his spiritual manipulations. Once I saw him, I couldn’t see anyone else. Even now, many years after his death, I seek assistance from his noble soul and benefit from his unending effusions. In one word: Haddad is to be imbibed, not described! - M. S. Kumayli Khurasani, former student of Sayyid Hashim Haddad

Author : Jonah Lehrer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781501195884

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Mystery by Jonah Lehrer Pdf

New York Times bestselling author Jonah Lehrer “unravels the mystery of mysteries” in this “absolute delight” (Malcolm Gladwell) of a book that blends psychology, neuroscience, and anthropology to shine a new light on everything from the formulas of our favorite detective shows to the tricks of successful advertising campaigns and the calculated risks of the stock market. Why is mystery so compelling? What draws us to the unknown? Jonah Lehrer sets out to answer these questions in a vividly entertaining and surprisingly profound journey through the science of suspense. He finds that nothing can capture a person’s attention as strongly as mystery, and that mystery is the key principle in how humans view and understand the world. Whenever patterns are broken, we are hard-wired to find out why. Without our curiosity driving us to pursue new discoveries and solve stubborn problems, we would never have achieved the breakthroughs that have revolutionized human medicine, technology—and culture. From Shakespeare’s plays to the earliest works of the detective genre, our entertainment and media have continually reinvented successful forms of mystery to hook audiences. Here, Lehrer interviews individuals in unconventional fields—from dedicated small-business owners to innovative schoolteachers—who use mystery to challenge themselves and to motivate others to reach to new heights. He also examines the indelible role of mystery in our culture, revealing how the magical world of Harry Potter triggers the magic of dopamine in our brains, why the baseball season is ten times longer than the football season, and when the suspect is introduced in each episode of Law & Order. Fascinating, illuminating, and fun, Mystery explores the many surprising ways in which embracing a sense of awe and curiosity can enrich our lives.

Author : John Newton Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1348 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BCUL:VD2160894

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Encyclopaedia of Religious Knowledge by John Newton Brown Pdf