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Stealing Secrets, Telling Lies (edit title/settings)

How Spies and Codebreakers Helped Shape the 20th Century

by James Gannon (Author) (edit contributors)

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James Gannon examines the impact of many major incidents, such as the Zimmerman telegram interception, deciphering the German Enigma machine, the Soviets’ damaging penetration of the British Foreign Service through the "Cambridge Five" spy ring, and the U.S. counterintelligence coup known as... read more

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It was called "the war to end all wars," but, by the beginning of 1917, frightened Europeans had come to think of it as the war to end civilization.

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