In Churchill's Secret War, the author brings to light a plan to open a second front in the Balkans, from Turkey across the eastern Mediterranean, to hasten D-Day in the west. He also reveals new information on the Cicero spy scandal in 1943 when top secret Foreign Office documents were stolen in Ankara by the British Ambassador's valet, who passed them to the Germans. This was the biggest Foreign Office security lapse until the Burgess and Maclean affair some twenty years later. Robin Denniston has been afforded access to the secret wartime files that Churchill valued so highly. The result is a thorough, scholarly and original insight into Churchill's secret 'war within a war'.

Churchill's Secret War: Diplomatic Decrypts, the Foreign Office and Turkey 1942-44

History

Robin, Denniston

Europe

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Physical description; 295 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Notes; Inc. bibliographic references (p. 285-288) & index. Subject; Huddleston, E. U. T. (Ernest Urban Trevor) Sir 1913-1998.

Trevor Huddleston

Biographies & Memoirs

Macmillan

An examination of Churchill's wartime use of secret signals intelligence which brings to light a plan to open a second front from Turkey across the Eastern Mediterranean to speed up D-Day in the West, which also shows how he exerted influence on British foreign policy to bring Turkey into the war on the side of the Allies.

Churchills Secret War

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Sutton Publishing+ltd

The key part played by Winston Churchill in shaping the course of the Second World War is still of great interest to historians worldwide. In the course of his research, Robin Denniston has uncovered previously unknown files of diplomatic intercepts which show that Churchill's role in British foreign policy and war planning was far more significant than has hitherto been supposed. Although neither a commander-in-chief nor a head of state, he personally exerted considerable influence on British foreign policy to force Turkey into the Second World War on the side of the Allies. This ground-breaking book explores Churchill's use of secret signals intelligence before and during the Second World War and also sheds fresh light on Britain's relations with Turkey - a subject which has not received the attention it deserves. The book examines a little-known plan to open a second front in the Balkans, from Turkey across the eastern Mediterranean, designed to hasten D-Day in the west, and reveals

Churchill's Secret War: Diplomatic Decrypts, the Foreign Office and Turkey 1942-44 by Robin Denniston (2009-09-15)

Military

The History Press

"Thirty Secret Years" reveals how an enterprising Scottish linguist was able to decipher German naval messages in the Admiralty in World War One. Alastair Denniston became head of the British government's cabinet noir or cipher-breaking bureau in 1919, developed his team of fellow experts between the wars by spying on the Soviets from Whitehall. In 1939, he went on to lead an enlarged body of secret service men and women to Bletchley Park where they solved the vast problems of machine encipherment, enabling Churchill to avoid defeat in 1941 and invade Western Europe in June 1944. It is the story of how one man, working in obscurity and total secrecy, influenced the course of world history over 30 years of war and peace, told by his son.

Thirty Secret Years

Polperro Heritage Press