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As World War II raged in North Africa, General Irwin Rommel was guided by an uncanny sense of his enemies plans and weaknesses. In the summer of 1942, he led his Axis army swiftly and terrifyingly toward Alexandria, with the goal of overrunning the entire Middle East. Each step was informed by detailed updates on British positions. The Nazis, somehow, had a source for the Allies greatest secrets.
Yet the Axis powers were not the only ones with intelligence. Brilliant Allied cryptographers worked relentlessly at Bletchley Park, breaking down the extraordinarily complex Nazi code Enigma. From decoded German messages, they discovered that the enemy had a wealth of inside information. On the brink of disaster, a fevered and high-stakes search for the source began.
War of Shadows is the cinematic story of the race for information in the North African theater of World War II, set against intrigues that spanned the Middle East. Years in the making, this book is a feat of historical research and storytelling, and a rethinking of the popular narrative of the war. It portrays the conflict not as an inevitable clash of heroes and villains but a spiraling series of failures, accidents, and desperate triumphs that decided the fate of the Middle East and quite possibly the outcome of the war.
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Copyright 2021 by Gershom Gorenberg
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Gorenberg, Gershom, author.
Title: War of shadows : codebreakers, spies, and the secret struggle to drive the Nazis from the Middle East / Gershom Gorenberg.
Description: First edition. | New York : PublicAffairs, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020022031 | ISBN 9781610396271 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781610396288 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: World War, 19391945Africa, North. | World War, 19391945Middle East. | World War, 19391945Secret service. | EspionageHistory20th century.
Classification: LCC D766.82 .G575 2021 | DDC 940.54/850961dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020022031
ISBNs: 978-1-61039-627-1 (hardcover), 978-1-61039-628-8 (ebook)
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* Aristocratic titles appear only when the person was primarily known by that title.
** A list of intelligence and security agencies appears below.
UNITED STATES
Prescott Currier: officer and codebreaker in the US Navys OP-20-G signal intelligence agency
Dwight Eisenhower: general, deputy chief, then chief of army planning; later commander of Operation Torch
Bonner Frank Fellers: military attach in Egypt
William Friedman: codebreaker, director of the US Armys Signal Intelligence Service
James Fry: assistant military attach in Egypt
Genevieve Grotjan: codebreaker, Signal Intelligence Service
Solomon Kullback: codebreaker, Signal Intelligence Service
Alexander Kirk: ambassador to Egypt
Charles Lindbergh: aviator and isolationist leader
George Marshall: general, army chief of staff
Russell Maxwell: general, commander of US military supply mission in Egypt
William Phillips: ambassador to Italy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: president
Leo Rosen: officer and engineer, Signal Intelligence Service
Frank Rowlett: codebreaker, Signal Intelligence Service
Henry Stimson: Republican politician, secretary of state under Herbert Hoover, secretary of war under Franklin Roosevelt
Sumner Welles: undersecretary of state
BRITAIN
Jean Alington: Bletchley Park translator
Claude Auchinleck: general, British commander in chief, Middle East
Ralph Bagnold: army officer and explorer, founder and commander of the Long Range Desert Group
Alan Brooke: general, chief of the Imperial General Staff
Herbert Cecil Buck: army officer, commander of the Special Interrogation Group, SIG
Neville Chamberlain: prime minister until May 1940
Winston Churchill: prime minister from May 1940
Joan Clarke: codebreaker at GC&CS
Dorothy (Peter) Clayton: aviator and explorer, wife of Robert Clayton
Pat Clayton: explorer, later officer in the Long Range Desert Group
Robert Clayton: navy pilot and explorer, husband of Dorothy Clayton
Alan Cunningham: general, commander of the Eighth Army in Libya, 1941
Andrew Cunningham: admiral, commander in chief, Mediterranean Fleet
Alastair Denniston: naval officer, codebreaker, first director of GC&CS, Government Code and Cipher School, British signal intelligence
John Dill: field marshal, chief of the Imperial General Staff, later British militarys representative in Washington
Russell Dudley-Smith: naval officer, codebreaker at GC&CS
Aubrey (Abba) Eban: army officer, Special Operations Executive liaison in Palestine
Anthony Eden: Conservative politician, secretary of state for war, then foreign secretary
Ian Fleming: assistant to the director of British naval intelligence, younger brother of Peter Fleming
Peter Fleming: author and army officer
Lord Halifax (Edward Frederick Lindley Wood): foreign secretary, afterward ambassador to the United States
John Haselden: army intelligence officer
John Herivel: codebreaker at GC&CS
Harry Hinsley: codebreaker and traffic analyst, GC&CS
Dillwyn (Dilly) Knox: codebreaker, original head of the Enigma section of GC&CS
Jacqueline Lampson: half-Italian wife of Miles Lampson
Miles Lampson: ambassador to Egypt
Mavis Lever: codebreaker at GC&CS
Percy Loraine: ambassador to Italy
Harold MacMichael: high commissioner of Palestine
Raymond Maunsell: army officer, head of Security Intelligence Middle East, SIME
Stewart Menzies: director of MI6, alias C, after Hugh Sinclair
Stuart Milner-Barry: codebreaker, GC&CS
Alan Moorehead: war correspondent
Philip Neame: general, commander of British forces in Palestine, later commander of British forces in Libya
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