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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

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

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

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

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

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

NORMAN RIDLEY

"...serves as a useful and insightful introduction to a crucial period in world history, with lessons for both the intelligence scholar and the history enthusiast."—American Intelligence Journal Most strongly associated with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, it is often stated that Britain’s policy of appeasement was instituted in the 1930s in the hope of avoiding war with Hi...

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 AND ARCHITECTURE

NORMAN RIDLEY

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 into believing in the new regime. Hearts and minds had to be won over and one of the ways the Nazis did that was to create an ideal of German nationhood in which...

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HITLER'S BRITISH NAZIS

NORMAN RIDLEY

Following the end of the First World War, many countries experienced economic decline. Unemployment, high inflation, low wages and poor working conditions led to widespread unrest. This manifested itself in the rise of powerful militaristic leaders, first in Italy where fascism was born, and then in Germany and elsewhere. The policies of the likes of Mussolini and Hitler were h...

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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

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

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

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

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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