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- 10 visitors recommend:
Codebreaking and the Battle of Midway
Source: WorldWar2History.info
Author: Stephen Budiansky
- How codebreaking enabled the decisive American victory at Midway -- the dramatic battle that halted Japanese expansion in its tracks and changed the path of history.
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- 6 visitors recommend:
A Code-Maker's War
Source: WorldWar2History.info
Author: Leo Marks
Country: United Kingdom
- This excerpt from his book tells part of Leo Marks' story -- a remarkable man who joined the SOE and became involved in some of the war's most dramatic secret operations.
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- 10 visitors recommend:
We Die Alone: A World War II Epic of Escape and Endurance
Source: Amazon
Author: David Howarth
- If this story of espionage and survival were a novel, readers might dismiss the Shackleton-like exploits of its hero as too fantastic to be taken seriously. But respected historian David Howarth confirmed the details of Jan Baalsrud's riveting tale ... astonishing stuff." (1999)
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- 4 visitors recommend:
The Brigade: An Epic Story of Vengeance, Salvation, and World War II
Source: Amazon
Author: Howard Blum
Country: United Kingdom
- A look into the clandestine operations of the Jewish Brigade Group, a unit of some 5,000 Jews who fought with the British Eighth Army in Italy in the waning months of the war. Once they learned the true extent of the holocaust, soldiers of the brigade began using intelligence reports to pinpoint the location of former SS officers and camp guards and take vengeance. (2001)
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Anthony Blunt: His Lives
Source: Amazon
Author: Miranda Carter
Country: United Kingdom
- From an Amazon reader: "This superb biography reveals in depth the many 'lives' led by art historian spy Anthony Blunt who worked concurrently for British and Soviet espionage agencies during WW II, but actually betrayed his homeland)." (2002)
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- 17 visitors recommend:
Casablanca (DVD)
Source: Michael Curtiz, director
- Is there really anything we could add here? (1943)
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- 12 visitors recommend:
Shining Through (VHS)
Source: David Seltzer, director
- Michael Douglas is a spy in Germany, Liam Neeson is a Nazi, and Melanie Griffith is the love interest. Amazon reviewers give it 4 stars. (1992)
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- 10 visitors recommend:
The Eagle Has Landed (DVD)
Source: John Sturges, director
- Michael Caine and Donald Sutherland star in this thriller about a Nazi officer who takes over a small town as part of a plot to assassinate Winston Churchill. Amazon reviewers give it 4.5 stars. (1976)
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- 5 visitors recommend:
All through the Night (VHS)
Source: Vincent Sherman, director
- A comedy-thriller. Humphrey Bogart is pitted against Nazi saboteurs. Amazon readers give it 5 stars. (1942)
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- 5 visitors recommend:
Edge of Darkness (VHS)
Source: Lewis Milestone, director
- Errol Flynn and Ann Sheridan star in this story of a Norwegian village uprising against the Nazi occupation. Amazon reviewers give it 5 stars. (1943)
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- 5 visitors recommend:
Golden Earrings (VHS)
Source: Mitchell Leisen, director
- Marlene Dietrich is a seductive gypsy who spies on the Nazis. Amazon reviewers give it 5 stars. (1947)
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- 4 visitors recommend:
Blood on the Sun (DVD)
Source: Frank Lloyd, director
- James Cagney plays a tenacious reporter who discovers the Japanese government's plan for world domination. Amazon reviewers give it 4.5 stars. (1945)
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- 4 visitors recommend:
Eye of the Needle (DVD)
Source: Richard Marquand, director
- Donald Sutherland stars as a German spy in this thriller based on the Ken Follett bestseller. Amazon reviewers give it 5 stars. (1981)
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- 3 visitors recommend:
To Have and Have Not (VHS)
Source: Howard Hawks, director
- Humphrey Bogart and a 20-year-old Lauren Bacall star in a Casablanca-like movie adaptation of an Ernest Hemingway book. Bogart plays a boat captain who reluctantly agrees to help the French Resistance. Amazon reviewers give it 5 stars. (1945)
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- 2 visitors recommend:
Background to Danger (VHS)
Source: Raoul Walsh, director
- One Amazon reader writes: "Set in neutral Turkey circa WW2, this nearly-forgotten film is a fast-paced tale of espionage ... a crisp, actionful movie, with a brisk car chase spicing up the latter sections." (1943)
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