Download or read book The Dark Invader written by Captain Franz von Rintelen and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men engaged in Intelligence Services during a war divide their particular opponents into two classes. One consists of neutrals who go out of their way to help the enemy for the sake of gain; and for such men we have not much compassion should they fall upon misfortune. They are interfering in great matters with which they are not concerned, in order to make a little money. The other class is made up of men who, abandoning the opportunities of their own careers, go secretly away in the sacred service of their country, play a lone hand, and run the gauntlet of foreign laws. For such we can have nothing but respect while the fight is going on and friendship when it is over. Captain Franz von Rintelen belongs to this latter class. A young naval officer with every likelihood of reaching to high rank, he went abroad in 1915 and only saw his own country again after the lapse of six strenuous and, in part, unhappy years. The history of those years is told in this book. The conversations which he records depend, of course, upon his memory; the main facts we are able to check, and we know them to be exact. The book is written, as one would expect from his record, without the least rancour, and I think I am not trenching upon the province of criticism when I add—with admirable simplicity. It is a record which is more detailed and concerned with endeavours on a vastly wider scale than is usual in such accounts. One cannot, I think, read it without recognising, apart from the magnitude of the things attempted and done, the terrific strain under which he lived; and this gives a moving and human quality to the narrative which sets it a little apart from any other which I have read. Those who are most saturated in spy stories will find much to surprise them in this volume, and they will not be likely to forget the poignant minutes which he spent on the top of an omnibus in London and the way in which those minutes ended. Finally, here is as good an argument against War as a man could find in twenty volumes devoted to that subject alone.
Download or read book The Dark Invader written by Captain Franz von Rintelen and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Dark Invader" is a first-hand report by a top German intelligence agent sent to the still-neutral United States in World War I. Later historical research and analysis, based on the secret documents captured at the end of WWII, prove that the facts and events described in this memoir are true.
Download or read book German Naval Intelligence written by United States. Office of Naval Intelligence and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Naval Intelligence from Germany written by Matthew S. Seligmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the course of the Anglo-German naval race, the British Admiralty found a regular flow of information on Germany's naval policy, on her warship construction and on the technical progress of her fleet to be absolutely vital. It was only on the basis of accurate calculations of Germany's maritime development that the framers of British naval policy could formulate a coherent response to this alarming challenge to the Royal Navy's long-standing supremacy at sea. While numerous sources were available to the Admiralty on the development of the German navy the most important, was the information provided by the British naval attaché in Berlin. From his meetings with German officials, conversations at social occasions, visits to naval facilities and shipyards, and personal observations of German naval politics, the British naval attaché was able to supply a regular stream of high-grade intelligence to his superiors in Whitehall. This volume examines and illustrates the work of the last four officers to hold the post of naval attaché in Berlin before the cataclysm of 1914, Captains Dumas, Heath, Watson and Henderson. By providing examples of their reporting on such crucial matters as the expansion of the German battle fleet, the goals of Admiral von Tirpitz, the development of German naval materiel, including Dreadnoughts, U-boats and airships, this volume of attaché correspondence illustrates a fundamental, but neglected, dimension of the Anglo-German naval race before the First World War: namely, the role of the navy's 'man on the spot' in Berlin.
Download or read book The Dark Invader written by Franz von Rintelen and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first hand report by a top German intelligence agent sent to the still neutral United States in the First World War. Official German records, captured by British and American forces at the end of the Second World War, clearly show the colourful memoirs of the German naval officer to be accurate. Von Rintelen's orders in Berlin had called for measures to prevent the shipment of American war material to Germany's enemies. In the US, this meant buying arms to keep them from being purchased by the Allies, but it could also mean placing bombs in the hulls of ships sailing for Europe and formenting strikes among the labour-force of American ammunition manufacturers. Captain Franz von Rintelen most likely would have kept his secrets to himself, had he been treated more tactfully when returning from years of British and American imprisonment. The memoirs, not entirely free of emotion, are therefore also an attempt to tell what Berlin stubbornly denied had happened. As might be expected, the German Foreign Office and powerful men in the Nazi government were able to quash publication in Germany, thereby forcing von Rintelen to seek a publisher abroad. Embroiled in a bitter legal dispute with his government over financial claims arising from his activities in the US, von Rintelen wisely left the country, probably just in time to avoid arrest by the National Socialists. The officer of the Imperial German Navy now moved to London. He befriended 'Blinker' Hall, his former captor in the First World War, and asked if he could don a British uniform and join the fight against Germany.
Download or read book German Naval Vessels of World War Two written by United States. Office of Naval Intelligence and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World Turned Upside Down written by Marvin B. Durning and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1955, after assignments at the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) and on board a destroyer, Marvin Durning arrived at ONI's office in Munich, Germany. During this year, he participated in the final stages of transforming Germany from a defeated enemy into a respected democracy, reestablishing its sovereignty, and shepherding its membership in NATO, which also involved rearming America's erstwhile foe. At that time, Munich, like Berlin, was a nerve center for the Cold War. It was crowded with U.S. troops and German and Slav refugees. Radio Free Europe called it home. The city was, Durning writes, "a jungle of competing secret intelligence organizations: British, French, American, Russian, West and East German, Czech, Polish, and others." Beneath the calm surface of everyday life in Munich roamed agents and double agents who witnessed defections, kidnappings, interrogations that ended in death, and assassinations by bomb explosions and by poison dart. World Turned Upside Down is Durning's account of such activities. Durning served as the de facto executive officer of a small office of German intelligence specialists tasked with routine navy issues. But much more was underway. Known only to his commander, himself, and the yeoman who typed the reports, former admirals of the defunct German Kriegsmarine attended secret meetings at his commander's house in the suburbs of Munich, where they worked to plan and create a future West German Navy. In addition, Durning served as a liaison officer to the Gehlen Organization, the supersecret German intelligence and espionage organization, and he recounts their activities here.
Download or read book Spies in Uniform written by Matthew S. Seligmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the British government declare war on Germany in August 1914? Was it because Germany posed a threat to British national security? Today many prominent historians would argue that this was not the case and that a million British citizens died needlessly for a misguided cause. This book counters such revisionist arguments. Matthew Seligmann disputes the suggestion that the British government either got its facts wrong about the German threat or even, as some have claimed, deliberately 'invented' it in order to justify an otherwise unnecessary alignment with France and Russia. By examining the military and naval intelligence assessments forwarded from Germany to London by Britain's service attachés in Berlin, its 'men on the spot', Spies in Uniform clearly demonstrates that the British authorities had every reason to be alarmed. From these crucial intelligence documents, previously thought to have been lost, Dr Seligmann shows that in the decade before the First World War, the British government was kept well informed about military and naval developments in the Reich. In particular, the attachés consistently warned that German ambitions to challenge Britain posed a real and imminent danger to national security. As a result, the book concludes that the British government's perception of a German threat before 1914, far from being mistaken or invented, was rooted in hard and credible intelligence.
Download or read book Cryptologic Aspects of German Intelligence Activities in South America During World War II written by David P. Mowry and published by Military Bookshop. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication joins two cryptologic history monographs that were published separately in 1989. In part I, the author identifies and presents a thorough account of German intelligence organizations engaged in clandestine work in South America as well as a detailed report of the U.S. response to the perceived threat. Part II deals with the cryptographic systems used by the varioius German intelligence organizations engaged in clandestine activities.
Download or read book Military Intelligence written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strange Intelligence written by Hector C. Bywater and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hector C. Bywater was perhaps the British secret service's finest agent operating in Germany before the First World War, tasked with collecting intelligence on naval installations. Recruited by Mansfield Cumming, the first 'C' (or head of what would become MI6), Bywater was given the designation 'H2O' in what was a rather obvious play on his name - and the equivalent of James Bond's '007'. Indeed, the charming, courageous Bywater probably came as close to the popular image of Ian Fleming's most famous character as any British secret agent ever did. Originally written up in 1930 as a series of thrilling articles in the Daily Telegraph, his experiences were soon turned into a book, with the help of Daily Express journalist H. C. Ferraby, collating Bywater's espionage endeavours in one rollicking tale of secret service adventure. Although the identities of the British spies carrying out the missions in Strange Intelligence are disguised, we now know that most of them were in fact Bywater himself. Ahead of a war that was to put the British Navy to its sternest test since Trafalgar, Bywater reveals how he and his fellow agents deceived the enemy to gather vital intelligence on German naval capabilities. His account is a true classic of espionage and derring-do.
Download or read book The Silent War written by Richard Deacon and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dark Invader War time Reminiscences of a German Naval Intelligence Officer written by Von Rintelen and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book German Naval Code Breakers written by Jak P. Mallmann Showell and published by Ian Allan Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first definitive account of German naval code breakers during World War II. The book looks at how German code-breaking developed after the traumas of defeat in 1918, the nature of the codes used by the British and US navies during WWII, how the German code- breaking department was organised and more.
Download or read book British Naval Intelligence through the Twentieth Century written by Andrew Boyd and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-30 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed military historian examines the vital role of British naval intelligence from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the Cold War. In this comprehensive account, Andrew Boyd brings a critical new dimension to our understanding of British naval intelligence. From the capture of Napoleons signal codes to the satellite-based systems of the Cold War era, he provides a coherent and reliable overview while setting his subject in the larger context of the British state. It is a fascinating study of how naval needs and personalities shaped the British intelligence community that exists today. Boyd explains why and how intelligence was collected and assesses its real impact on policy and operations. Though he confirms that naval intelligence was critical to Britains victory in both World Wars, he significantly reappraises its role in each. He reveals that coverage of Germany before 1914 and of the three Axis powers in the interwar period was more comprehensive and effective than previously suggested; and while British power declined rapidly after 1945, the book shows how intelligence helped the Royal Navy to remain a significant global force for the rest of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Fuehrer Conferences on Matters Dealing with the German Navy 1939 1945 written by Germany. Kriegsmarine. Oberkommando and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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