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  • SPYING FOR HITLER
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    SPYING FOR HITLER
    NORMAN RIDLEY
    “…the book starts with WWI spying and sabotage in the US by German agents. After that comes the great 1930s spy rings and the 1940s spy and sabotage efforts.” -Historical Miniatures Gaming Society When Hitler was striving for recognition and relevance in the political turmoil of the early Weimar years in Germany he gave little thought to the world on the other side of the Atlan...

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  • HITLER AND POLAND
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    HITLER AND POLAND
    NORMAN RIDLEY
    This book explores the tumultuous period following the First World War, where Poland, caught between the competing ambitions of Germany and the Soviet Union, navigates political upheaval, territorial disputes, and the emerging threat of Hitler. Following the end of the First World War, the newly reformed state of Poland was wedged uncomfortably between the two dominant nations ...

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  • HITLER'S GOLD
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    HITLER'S GOLD
    NORMAN RIDLEY
    The whereabouts and disposal of the Nazi's remaining stolen gold has led to numerous investigations and countless conspiracy theories. Norman Ridley uncovers many of the mysteries surrounding this continuing search for the missing millions. War is a costly business and in 1939, Germany was almost broke with its economy overheating and heading for runaway inflation. Hitler neede...

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  • THE RACE FOR THE ATOMIC BOMB
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    THE RACE FOR THE ATOMIC BOMB
    NORMAN RIDLEY
    On 19 December 1938, Otto Hahn, working at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin, conducted an experiment the results of which baffled him. It took his émigré collaborator Lise Meitner to explain that he had split an atom of uranium, which at the time seemed to defy all known laws of physics. When Neils Bohr took this news to the United States it became clear to ...

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  • THE ROAD TO BARBAROSSA
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    THE ROAD TO BARBAROSSA
    NORMAN RIDLEY
    From the chaos of the First World War, during which Germany and Russia had fought each other to a standstill, there emerged two societies whose diametrically opposed ideologies of communism and fascism represented the opposite extremes of the political spectrum. Despite this, in time the governments and military establishments in both countries were able to create an environmen...

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  • THE VENLO STING
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    THE VENLO STING
    NORMAN RIDLEY
    "I would recommend the book to intelligence practitioners, scholars, and other persons interested in World War II intelligence history." —Michael Nady, American Intelligence Journal On 9 November 1939, two unsuspecting British agents of the Special Intelligence Services walked into a trap set by German Spymaster Reinhard Heydrich. Believing that they were meeting a dissident Ge...

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  • READING HITLER'S MIND
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    READING HITLER'S MIND
    NORMAN RIDLEY
    A study of how to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain approached his dealings with Hitler & Germany and what intelligence influenced his strategy—"A valuable work for anyone interested in the origins of World War II" ( The NYMAS Review ). "A useful and insightful introduction to a crucial period in world history, with lessons for both the intelligence scholar and the his...

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  • HITLER'S AIR WAR IN SPAIN
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    HITLER'S AIR WAR IN SPAIN
    NORMAN RIDLEY
    Almost since the advent of warfare, civilians have suffered 'collateral damage', but the concept of Total War – a war without limits – only surfaced in the early part of the twentieth century. The idea of huge numbers of aircraft raining death upon defenceless cities was seen by many as not only barbaric but, in practical terms, quite unrealistic given the logistical challenges...

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  • HITLER'S AIR WAR IN SPAIN
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    HITLER'S AIR WAR IN SPAIN
    NORMAN RIDLEY
    Almost since the advent of warfare, civilians have suffered 'collateral damage', but the concept of Total War – a war without limits – only surfaced in the early part of the twentieth century. The idea of huge numbers of aircraft raining death upon defenceless cities was seen by many as not only barbaric but, in practical terms, quite unrealistic given the logistical challenges...

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  • WHEN THE WORLD STOOD ON THE BRINK OF NUCLEAR WAR
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    WHEN THE WORLD STOOD ON THE BRINK OF NUCLEAR WAR
    NORMAN RIDLEY
    The post-war world was dominated by the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R., but the events of 1956 exposed their limitations. On 22 October 1956, following Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser’s nationalisation of the Suez Canal, British Prime Minister Anthony Eden secretly met with French and Israeli leaders in Sevres, France. They agreed that Israel would invade Egypt, with Britain and Fr...

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  • STANDING UP TO HITLER
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    STANDING UP TO HITLER
    NORMAN RIDLEY
    Resistance in Nazi Germany was a brave but extreme reaction to the totalitarian regime, requiring individuals to confront evil, face torture, and risk death. In a country with no tolerance for dissent, opposition meant confronting the brutal consequences of one's actions, often with little hope of changing the course of events. Most stories of German opposition focus on the fai...

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  • THE SECRET WAR BETWEEN HITLER AND STALIN
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    THE SECRET WAR BETWEEN HITLER AND STALIN
    NORMAN RIDLEY
    A gripping account of the brutal intelligence war between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia during WWII. The intelligence war between Germany and the Soviet Union, ignited by Operation Barbarossa on 22 June 1941, was fiercely contested over four years. Neither side was prepared for the scale of the conflict, and both quickly developed methods to assess and counter each other’s mil...

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  • REINHARD GEHLEN: HITLER’S SPYMASTER
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    REINHARD GEHLEN: HITLER’S SPYMASTER
    NORMAN RIDLEY
    A revealing study of Reinhard Gehlen’s rise from Nazi intelligence to Cold War spymaster for the West. Eleven years after Reinhard Gehlen, the head of Adolf Hitler’s Eastern Front military intelligence unit, emerged from hiding to hand himself over to US forces, he had, with the help of the American CIA, created a legend for himself as founder and first president of the West Ge...

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  • THE HORROR OF HIMMLER'S DEATH SQUADS
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    THE HORROR OF HIMMLER'S DEATH SQUADS
    NORMAN RIDLEY
    During WWII, Heinrich Himmler's murder squads, the Einsatzgruppen, carried out mass executions in the Baltic states that significantly altered the Holocaust. During the Second World War, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were occupied on three separate occasions – twice by the Soviet Union and once by Nazi Germany. The signing of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact of 1939 allowed the Sovi...

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  • HITLER'S U.S. ALLIES
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    HITLER'S U.S. ALLIES
    NORMAN RIDLEY
    How the end of World War I led to economic instability and rise of fascist ideologies worldwide. In many countries around the world, the end of the First World War, far from leading to a new world order of stability, ushered in an era of uncertainty and economic decline. To solve the problems of unemployment, high inflation, low wages and poor working conditions, many turned to...

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  • NAZI PROPAGANDA THROUGH ART & ARCHITECTURE
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    NAZI PROPAGANDA THROUGH ART & ARCHITECTURE
    NORMAN RIDLEY
    Norman Ridley explores how Hitler's artistic and architectural vision for Germany led to the monumental structures which we now associate with the Third Reich. When the Nazis came to power in January 1933, they began a program of transforming Germany from a democracy into a totalitarian state, but it was not a matter of simply enforcing compliance. The people had to be coaxed i...

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  • HITLER AND POLAND
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    HITLER AND POLAND
    NORMAN RIDLEY
    This book explores the tumultuous period following the First World War, where Poland, caught between the competing ambitions of Germany and the Soviet Union, navigates political upheaval, territorial disputes, and the emerging threat of Hitler. Following the end of the First World War, the newly reformed state of Poland was wedged uncomfortably between the two dominant nations ...

    $319.99

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  • HITLER'S GOLD
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    HITLER'S GOLD
    NORMAN RIDLEY
    The whereabouts and disposal of the Nazi's remaining stolen gold has led to numerous investigations and countless conspiracy theories. Norman Ridley uncovers many of the mysteries surrounding this continuing search for the missing millions. War is a costly business and in 1939, Germany was almost broke with its economy overheating and heading for runaway inflation. Hitler neede...

    $216.99

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  • THE ROAD TO BARBAROSSA
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    THE ROAD TO BARBAROSSA
    NORMAN RIDLEY
    From the chaos of the First World War, during which Germany and Russia had fought each other to a standstill, there emerged two societies whose diametrically opposed ideologies of communism and fascism represented the opposite extremes of the political spectrum. Despite this, in time the governments and military establishments in both countries were able to create an environmen...

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  • MILITARY AIR POWER IN EUROPE PREPARING FOR WAR
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    MILITARY AIR POWER IN EUROPE PREPARING FOR WAR
    NORMAN RIDLEY
    The First World War had seen the mechanization of warfare. Battle fronts had become immobilized in the grip of machine-guns and heavy artillery, leading to slaughter on an unprecedented scale. The end of the war saw exhausted governments extricating themselves from the carnage, but some leaders were concerned that, sooner or later, another major war would follow. As France's Ma...

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  • MILITARY AIR POWER IN EUROPE PREPARING FOR WAR
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    MILITARY AIR POWER IN EUROPE PREPARING FOR WAR
    NORMAN RIDLEY
    The First World War had seen the mechanization of warfare. Battle fronts had become immobilized in the grip of machine-guns and heavy artillery, leading to slaughter on an unprecedented scale. The end of the war saw exhausted governments extricating themselves from the carnage, but some leaders were concerned that, sooner or later, another major war would follow. As France's Ma...

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  • THE ROLE OF INTELLIGENCE IN THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
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    THE ROLE OF INTELLIGENCE IN THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
    NORMAN RIDLEY
    This in-depth WWII history examines how the Battle of Britain was shaped by military intelligence on both sides of the conflict. In the summer and fall of 1940, the UK successfully fended off a relentless German attack from the air. While the Battle of Britain was essentially a war of attrition, it was critically influenced at every stage by the gathering, assessment, and react...

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