1939-1945. The World War of Secret Services

The years 1939-1945 saw not only the great military confrontations that are well known, but also the shadow battles that remain largely unknown.

Those that this groundbreaking book reveals to us in its vivid pages lead us from discovery to discovery, from the most unexpected to the most astonishing. How Hitler neglected his spies, while the French governments ignored theirs. Why Britain, standing alone against Nazi Germany, deployed two original weapons: disinformation and commando operations.

How Stalin was caught off guard by Hitler, and the Americans by Japan at Pearl Harbor. How France became the principal arena of the secret war in Europe. The Resistance as an intelligence provider. The Polish networks, the escape lines, women on every front. Soviet ripostes against Germany: partisans and secret services. From England to Norway and the United States, the scientific, technological and cryptological war. The great deception of D-Day. Across all of Asia, Anglo-Americans and Chinese nationalists allied against the Empire of the Rising Sun. So many unknown facets of the Second World War, evoked with undeniable brilliance and brought to light by a recognised historian of intelligence, author of authoritative works such as Histoire mondiale des services secrets de l'Antiquité à nos jours, Les Femmes de l'ombre, Les Maîtres de l'espionnage and Les Espions de Cambridge.