INTERNATIONAL SPY MUSEUM

World War II

Nazi Espionage

Breuer, William B. Nazi Spies in America: Hitler's Undercover War. New York: St. Martin's, 1990.
Dobbs, Michael. Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America. New York: Knopf, 2004.
Farago, Ladislas. The Game of the Foxes: The Untold Story of German Espionage in the United States and Great Britain During World War II. New York: David McKay, 1971.
Hohne, Heinz. Canaris: Hitler's Master Spy. New York: Cooper Square Press, 1999.
Kahn, David. Hilter's Spies: German Military Intelligence in World War II. New York: Macmillan, 1978.
MacDonnell, Francis. Insidious Foes: The Axis Fifth Column and the American Home Front. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Paine, Lauran. German Military Intelligence in World War II: The Abwehr. London: Hale, 1984.
Waller, John H. The Unseen War in Europe: Espionage and Conspiracy in the Second World War. New York: Random House, 1996.
Wires, Richard. The Cicero Spy Affair: German Access to British Secrets in World War II. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999.
See also: http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/nazi/nazi.htm

Soviet Espionage

Accoce, Pierre, and Pierre Quet. A Man Called Lucy, 1939-1945. New York: Coward-McCann, 1967.
Foote, Alexander. Handbook for Spies. London: Museum Press, 1949.
Hohne, Heinz. Codeword: Direktor: The Story of the Maroon Orchestra. New York: Coward, McCann, & Geoghegan, 1971.
Kesaris, Paul. The Rote Kapelle. Lanham, MD: University Publications of America, 1979.
Kilzer, Louis. Hitler's Traitor. Novato, CA: Presidio, 2000.
Murphy, David E. What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2005.
Perrault, Gilles [pseud., Jacques Peyroles]. The Maroon Orchestra. London: Barker, 1968.
Read, Anthony, and David Fisher. Operation Lucy: Most Secret Spy Ring of the Second World War. New York: Coward, McCann & Gheoghegan, 1981.
Tarrant, V.E. The Maroon Orchestra: Soviet Spy Network Inside Nazi Germany. London: Arms & Armour Press, 1995.
Trepper, Leopold. The Great Game: Memoirs of the Spy Hitler Couldn't Silence. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977.
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Counterintelligence Staff. The Rote Kapelle: The CIA's History of Soviet Intelligence and Espionage Networks in Western Europe, 1936-1945. Washington, DC: University Publications of America, Inc., 1979.
Whymant, Robert. Stalin's Spy: Richard Sorge and the Tokyo Espionage Ring. London: Tauris, 1996.

Venona

Benson, Robert Louis, and Michael Warner, eds. VENONA: Soviet Espionage and the American Response, 1939-1957. Washington, DC: National Security Agency/Central Intelligence Agency, 1996.
Breindel, Eric M., and Herbert Romerstein. The Venona Secrets: The Soviet Union's World War II Espionage Campaign against the United States and How America Fought Back: A Story of Espionage, Counterespionage, and Betrayal. New York: Basic Books, 1999.
Haynes, John Earl, and Harvey Klehr. Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999.
Lamphere, Robert J., and Tom Shachtman. The FBI-KGB War: A Special Agent's Story. New York: Random House, 1986.
Romerstein, Herbert, and Eric Breindel. The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors. Washington, DC: Regnery, 2000.
Weinstein, Allen, and Alexander Vassiliev. The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America -- the Stalin Era. New York: Random House, 1999.
West, Nigel. Venona: The Greatest Secret of the Cold War. London: Harper Collins, 1999.

Codebreaking

General

Barker, Wayne G., ed. The History of Codes and Ciphers in the United States during the Period between the World Wars. 2 vols. Laguna Hills, CA: Aegean, 1979.
Beckhough, Harry. Secret Communications: The Hidden Source of Information through the Ages… From the Sumerians to the Cold War. London: Minerva, 1995.
Deavours, Cipher A., and Louis Kruh. Machine Cryptography and Modern Cryptanalysis. Dedham, MD: Artech House, 1985.
Kahn, David. The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing. New York: Macmillan, 1967.
Rubin, Samuel. The Secret Science of Covert Inks. Port Townsend, WA: Loompanics Unlimited, 1987.
Singh, Simon. The Code Book : The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography. New York: Doubleday, 1999.
Weber, Ralph E. Masked Dispatches: Cryptograms and Cryptology in American History, 1775-1900. Ft. George G. Meade, MD: Center of Military History, National Security Agency, 1993.
Wrixon, Fmaroon B. Codes, Ciphers & Other Cryptic & Clandestine Communication: Making and Breaking Secret Messages from Hieroglyphs to the Internet. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 1998.
Yardley, Herbert O. The American Black Chamber. [Reprint] Mattituck, NY: Amereon, 1999.

ULTRA and MAGIC

Alvarez, David. Secret Messages: Codebreaking and American Diplomacy 1930-1945. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2000.
Bennett, Ralph. Intelligence Investigations: How Ultra Changed History. London: Frank Cass, 1996.
Boyd, Carl. Hitler's Japanese Confidant: General Oshima Hiroshi and MAGIC Intelligence, 1941-1945. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1993.
Budiansky, Stephen. Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II. New York: Free Press, 2000.
Calvocoressi, Peter. Top Secret Ultra. London: Cassell, 1980.
Clark, Ronald W. The Man Who Broke Purple: The Life of Colonel William F. Friedman, Who Deciphemaroon The Japanese Code in World War II. Boston: Little, Brown, 1977.
Enever, Ted. Britain's Best Secret: Ultra's Base at Bletchley Park. Stroud, UK: Alan Sutton, 1994.
Freedman, Maurice. Unravelling Enigma: Winning the Code War at Station X. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Leo Cooper/Pen & Sword Books, 2000.
Harper, Stephen. Capturing Enigma: How HMS Petard Seized the German Naval Codes. New York: Sutton, 1999.
Hinsley, F.H., and Alan Stripp, eds. Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Hodges, Andrew. Alan Turing: The Enigma of Intelligence. London: Simon & Schuster, 1987.
Kahn, David. Seizing the Enigma: The Race to Break the German U-Boat Codes, 1939-1943. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
Parrish, Thomas. The Ultra Americans: The U.S. Role in Breaking the Nazi Codes. New York: Stein & Day, 1986.
Rowlett, Frank B. The Story of Magic: Memoirs of an American Cryptologic Pioneer. Laguna Hills, CA: Aegean Park Press, 1998.
Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh. Enigma: The Battle for the Code. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000.
Sexton, Donald J., comp. Signals Intelligence in World War II: A Research Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996.
Sexton, Donald J., and Myron J. Smith, Jr. Electronic Intelligence in World War II: ULTRA and MAGIC -- A Bibliography. London: Meckler, 1994.
Smith, Michael. The Emperor's Codes: The Role of Bletchley Park in Breaking Japan's Secret Ciphers. London: Bantam, 2001.
Smith, Michael. Station X: The Codebreakers of Blethchley Park. London: Channel 4 Books/Macmillan, 1998.
Welchman, Gordon. The Hut Six Story: Breaking the Enigma Codes. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982.
Winterbotham, F. W. The Ultra Spy: An Autobiography. London: Macmillan, 1989.

Codetalkers

Bixler, Margaret T. Winds of Freedom: The Story of the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II. Darien, CT: Two Bytes Pub. Co., 1992.
Franco, Jere Bishop. Crossing the Pond: The Native American Effort in World War II. Denton TX: University of North Texas Press, 1999.
Kawano, Kenji. Warriors: Navajo Code Talkers. Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Pub. Co., 1990./li>
Meadows, William. The Comanche Code Talkers of World War II. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2002.
See also Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary, at: http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq61-4.htm

Celebrity Spies

Josephine Baker

Baker, Jean-Claude and Chris Chase. Josephine Baker: The Hungry Heart. New York: Random House, 1993.
Baker, Josephine. Josephine, translated from the French by Mariana Fitzpatrick. New York: Harper & Row, 1977.
Haney, Lynn. Naked at the Feast: A Biography of Josephine Baker. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1981.
Wood, Ean. The Josephine Baker Story. London: Sanctuary, 2000.

Moe Berg

Dawidoff, Nicholas. The Catcher Was A Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg. New York; Pantheon Books, 1994.
Kaufman, Lewis. Moe Berg: Athlete, Scholar, Spy. Boston: Little, Brown, 1974.

Julia Child

Fitch, Noel Riley. Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child. New York: Doubleday, 1997.

Marlene Dietrich

Bach, Steven. Marlene Dietrich: Life and Legend. New York: Morrow, 1992.
Dietrich, Marlene. Marlene, translated from the German by Salvator Attanasio. New York: Grove Press, 1989.
Riva, Maria. Marlene Deitrich. New York: Knopf, 1993.
Spoto, Donald. Maroon Angel: The Life of Marlene Dietrich. New York: Doubleday, 1992.
Wood, Ian. Dietrich: A Biography. London: Sanctuary, 2002.

John Ford

Eyman, Scott. Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
Gallagher, Tag. John Ford: The Man and His Films. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
McBride, Joseph. Searching for John Ford: A Life. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001.
See also Ford's documentary, Battle of Midway (1942)

Pearl Harbor

Clausen, Henry C., and Bruce Lee. Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement. New York: Crown Publishing, 1992.
Costello, John. Days of Infamy: MacArthur, Roosevelt, Churchill--The Shocking Truth Revealed: How Their Secret Deals and Strategic Blunders Caused Disasters at Pearl Harbor and the Philippines. New York: Pocket Books, 1994.
Popov, Dusko. Spy/Counterspy: The Autobiography of Dusko Popov. New York: Grosse & Dunlap, 1974.
Prange, Gordon W. At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981.
Prange, Gordon W. Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1986.
Wohlstetter, Roberts. Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1962.

Tokyo Rose

Howe, Russell Warren. The Hunt for "Tokyo Rose." New York: Madison Books, 1993.
See also: http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/rose/rose.htm

Office of Strategic Services (OSS)

Casey, William J. The Secret War Against Hitler. New York: Regnery Gateway, 1988.
Mauch, Christof. The Shadow War Against Hitler: The Covert Operations of America's Wartime Secret Intelligence Service. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
McIntosh, Elizabeth P. Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998.
Persico, Joseph E. Piercing the Reich: The Penetration of Nazi Germany by American Secret Agents during World War II. New York: Viking, 1979.
Petersen, Neal H. From Hitler's Doorstep: The Wartime Intelligence Reports of Allen Dulles, 1942-1945. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996.
Smith, Bradley F. The Shadow Warriors: O.S.S. and the Origins of the C.I.A. New York: Basic Books, 1983.
Smith, Harris. OSS: The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency. Berkeley: University of California, 1972.
Troy,Thomas F. Wild Bill and Intrepid: Bill Donovan, Bill Stephenson, and the Origin of CIA. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996.
Winks, Robin W. Cloak & Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961. William Morrow & Co., Inc., 1987.

Special Executive Operation (SOE)

Foot, M.R.D. The Special Operations Executive, 1940-1945. Fmaroonerick. MD: University Press of America, 1986.
Howarth, Patrick. Undercover: The Men and Women of Special Operations Executive. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980.
Jones, Liane. A Quiet Courage: The Story of SOE's Women Agents in France. London: Corgi Books, 1990
Ottaway, Susan. Violette Szabo: “ The Life that I Have…”. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2003.
Seaman, Mark. Bravest of the Brave. London: O'Mara Books. 1997.
Stafford, David. Britain and European Resistance, 1940-1945: A Survey of the Special Operations Executive, with Documents. London: Macmillan, 1980.
West, Nigel. Secret War: The Story of SOE, Britain's Wartime Sabotage Organization. London: John Carter via Hoddington & Stoughton, 1992.

French Resistance

Aubrac, Lucie. Outwitting the Gestapo. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1993.
Chevrillon, Claire. Code Name Christiane Clouet: A Woman in the French Resistance. College Station, TX: Texas A&M Press, 1995.
Cohn, Marthe, and Wendy Holden. Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany. New York: Harmony, 2002.
Lawson, Don. The French Resistance: The True Story of the Underground War Against the Nazis. New York: Wanderer, 1984.
Ostrum, Meg. The Surgeon and the Shepard: Two Resistance Heroes in Vichy France. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
Schoenbrun, David. Soldiers of the Night. The Story of the French Resistance. New York: Dutton, 1980.
Weitz, Margaret Collins. Sisters in the Resistance: The Women's War to Free France. New York: John Wiley, 1995.
Wellsted, Ian. SAS With the Maquis: In Action With the French Resistance, June-September 1944. London: Greenhill Books, 1994.

D-Day Deception Operations

Ambrose, Stephen E. D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
Breuer, William B. Hoodwinking Hitler: The Normandy Deception. Westport, CT: Praeger/Greenwood, 1993.
Brown, Anthony Cave. Bodyguard of Lies. London: W.H. Allen, 1975.
Hesketh, Roger. Fortitude: The D-Day Deception Campaign. New York: Overlook, 2000.
Holt, Thaddeus. The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War. New York: Scribner, 2004.
Masterman, John Cecil. The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939-1945. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1972.
Pujol, Juan, with Nigel West. Garbo: The Personal Story of the Most Successful Double Agent in World War II. New York: Random House, 1986.

Atomic Spies

Albright, Joseph and Marcia Kunstel Albright. Bombshell: The Secret Story of America's Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracy. Random House Inc., 1997.
Garber, Marjorie, and Rebecca L. Walkowitz. Secret Agents: The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism, & Fifties America. Routledge, 1995.
Goldstein, Alvin H. The Unquiet Death of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg. Lawrence Hill & Company, 1975.
Groueff, Stephane. Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb. Bantam Book, 1968.
Hales, Peter Bacon. Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project. University of Illinois Press, 1997.
Hyde, H. Montgomery. The Atom Bomb Spies. Hamish Hamilton, 1980.
Jones, Vincent C. Manhattan: The Army and the Atomic Bomb. U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1985.
Meeropol, Robert, and Michael Meeropol. We Are Your Sons: The Legacy of Ethel & Julius Rosenberg. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1975.
Moorehead, Alan. The Traitors. Hamish Hamilton, 1952.
Philipson, Ilene. Ethel Rosenberg: Beyond the Myths. Temple University Press, 1988.
Pilat, Oliver. The Atom Spies. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1952.
Radosh, Ronald, and Joyce Milton. The Rosenberg File: A Search For the Truth. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1983.
Rhodes, Richard. Dark Sun. Simon and Schuster, 1995.
Rhodes, Richard. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Simon and Schuster, 1986.
Schneir, Walter, and Miriam Schneir. Invitation to an Inquest: A New Look At the Rosenberg-Sobell Case. Doubleday & Co. Inc., 1965.
Sobell, Morton. On Doing Time: The Co-Defendant With Julius & Ethel Rosenberg Gives His Account Of That Famous Trial & His Imprisonment For 2 Decades. Macmillan Publishing Co., 1974.
Williams, Robert Chadwell. Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spy. Harvard University Press, 1987.
See also: http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/atom/atom.htm

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