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Very Special Intelligence First published 1980 by £12.00 + P & P |
A green cloth bound book with gilt lettering to the spine which is very lightly bumped at the ends. Page block top edge dyed. Owners signature and birthday wishes from his kids; both on front free endpaper - in VERY GOOD condition. Dust wrapper is lightly edge rubbed; clipped; in VERY GOOD condition. 271 pages 145 mm. x 222 mm. x 33 mm. |
Jacket flap blurb
O.I.C. was the nerve centre of the Admiralty. Profiting from the experience of the famous Room 40 OB of First World War fame, it was designed to collect, co-ordinate, analyse and disseminate information from every possible source which could throw light on the intentions and movements of German maritime forces, naval, air and mercantile. Patrick Beesly, who himself served in O.I.C. from 1940 to 1945, has been able for the first time to reveal the full story of the Operation Intelligence Centre. Without O.I.C. and B.P. it is no exaggeration to say that Germany might have won the Second World War.
Patrick Beesly, who himself served in O.I.C. from 1940 to 1945, has been able for the first time to reveal the full story of the Operation Intelligence Centre. The pursuit of the Bismarck, the escape of the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau through the Channel, the tragedy of Convoy P.Q.17 and the German equivalent, the Battle of the North Cape, and above all the crucial war against the U-boats, are only some of the events which are seen in an entirely new light and from a unique angle. The development of O.I.C.'s techniques, as the many sources of intelligence are perfected, the various ciphers broken and 'Special Intelligence' flows out from Bletchley Park, reads like an adventure story. And this is precisely what it is.
Very Special Intelligence is, however, more than just a thrilling story. Based on material and personal knowledge not available to the authors of a number of recent best-selling books on this subject, it sets the record straight and is a vitally important contribution to the history of naval warfare and intelligence.
Jacket design by MON MOHAN
Contents
Author's Note and Acknowledgments
Foreword by Lord Mountbatten
Preface
Chapter
- ASTUTE MEN
- THE HE FIRST TWELVE MONTHS. A LEAN TIME
- OCTOBER 1940-MAY 1941. SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT
- GERMAN NAVAL CIPHERS AND B.P.
- THE SINKING OF THE BISMARCK
- JUNE-DECEMBER 1941. SPECIAL INTELLIGENCE AT LAST
- JANUARY-JULY 1942. OPERATION PAUKENSCHLAG AND THE GREAT BLACK-OUT
- THE CHANNEL DASH AND PQ.I7
- JULY-DECEMBER 1942. THE INDIAN OCEAN AND TORCH
- TRITON TO THE RESCUE
- JANUARY-MAY 1943. CLIMAX OF THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC
- JUNE-DECEMBER 1943. DONITZ TRIES AGAIN
- THE END OF SCHARNHORST AND TIRPITZ
- DENNING'S DAMNED BLACK MAGIC
- U-BOAT WARFARE. D DAY TO V E DAY
Epilogue
Some Personal Views
The Admiralty Sources
Index
List of Illustrations
- A wartime view of the Citadel
- Gross Admiral Rader
- Rear Admiral Denning
- Gross Admiral Karl DEmitz
- Rodger Winn
- Extracts from B.Dienst reports during April and May 1943 to B.d.U. and others stressing Allied H/F D/F activity
- The telex message from N.S. (Naval Section) B.P. to I.D.8.G. (Denning's section of O.I.C.) of the decrypt of the German order to Scharnhorst to sail to attack JW.55B
- The first page of the Submarine Tracking Room's report to the First Sea Lord for the week ending May 24, 1943
Endpaper maps by Patrick Leeson
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