Download or read book Secret Naval Investigator written by F. Ashe Lincoln and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[An] enthralling account of one of the least told important stories of WWII”: the role of the Department of Torpedoes and Mines Investigation Section (Firetrench). In the lead-up to the Second World War, Ashe Lincoln, a junior barrister, had enlisted in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a Sub-Lieutenant. On the outbreak of war, he became determined to serve at sea and was posted to minelayers. But a mysterious midnight summons sent him hurrying from his ship to the Admiralty in London and a top-secret conference presided over by Winston Churchill. Ashe Lincoln soon found himself pitting his wits against brilliantly skillful German scientists and technicians. These were the men Hitler had entrusted to devise secret underwater weapons sea mines and torpedoes of new and often unsuspected types to destroy Britain’s seapower and starve its population into surrender. The part that Ashe Lincoln played in this battle had been decided upon because he was a naval officer who combined legal training with a specialist knowledge in this particular aspect of naval warfare. In time, Lincoln became a key figure in a small group in the Admiralty whose exploits have been almost forgotten. He found himself in extraordinary situations, including crouching on a bleak Scottish hillside dealing with the first parachute mine knowing that Goering had boasted that no-one would live to do this. His story is a remarkable blend of deductive enterprise and courage. “Wonderful . . . This book was fascinating from start to finish. I can’t recommend it highly enough. Anyone with an interest in this field of warfare will find this book invaluable.” —Stand Easy
Download or read book Secret Naval Investigation With Plates Including a Portrait written by Fredman Ashe LINCOLN and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Naval Investigation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Naval Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Naval Investigation Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Naval Affairs United States Senate 66th Congress 2d Session 1921 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Naval Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 2000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arming the Fleet Highlights written by Wallace T. Martin and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arming The Fleet (ATF) Highlights includes very current and basic information on the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) and is 159 pages in ePub file format (76 pages in print) versus the larger comprehensive book which contains 402 pages in ePub file format (208 pages in print) and covers historical accomplishments from 1943 to today. All data contained in the smaller Highlights is included in the larger book.
Download or read book Investigation of the Naval Defense Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 1496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings on Investigation of National Defense Establishment written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Special Subcommittee No. 6 and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Hearings on Investigation of National Defense Establishment written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigation of the Naval Defense Program Hearing May 28 1942 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings on Investigation of National Defense Establishment Study of Regulations and Procedures Classification and Dissemination of Information Special Subcommittee of Information Special Subcommittee No 6 of 85 2 Under the Authority of H Res 67 Hearings Held March 10 July 9 1958 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 1170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Secret State written by John Hughes-Wilson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the ancient Greek and Roman origins of human intelligence and its use in the Catholic church to Francis Walsingham's Elizabethan secret service to the birth of the surveillance state in today's digital hi-tech age, Colonel John Hughes-Wilson, author of the highly successful Military Intelligence Blunders, gives an extraordinarily broad and wide-reaching perspective on espionage and intelligence, providing an up-to-date analysis of its importance of intelligence and in the recent past. Drawing upon a variety of sources, ranging from first-hand accounts to his own personal experience, Hughes-Wilson covers everything from undercover agents to photographic reconnaissance to today's much misunderstood cyber welfare.Authoritative and analytical, Hughes-Wilson searches for hard answers and scrutinizes why crucial intelligence is so often ignored, misunderstood, or spun by politicians and seasoned generals alike. From yesterday's spies to tomorrow's cyber world, The Secret State is a fascinating and thought-provoking history of this ever-changing and ever-important subject.
Download or read book Watergate The Hidden History written by Lamar Waldron and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Richard Nixon's culpability for Watergate has long been established—most recently by PBS in 2003—what's truly remarkable that after almost forty years, conventional accounts of the scandal still don't address Nixon's motive. Why was President Nixon willing to risk his reelection with so many repeated burglaries at the Watergate—and other Washington offices—in just a few weeks? What motivated Nixon to jeopardize his presidency by ordering the wide range of criminal operations that resulted in Watergate? What was Nixon so desperate to get at the Watergate, and how does it explain the deeper context surrounding his crimes? For the first time, the groundbreaking investigative research in Watergate: The Hidden History provides documented answers to all of those questions. It adds crucial missing pieces to the Watergate story—information that President Nixon wanted, but couldn't get, and that wasn't available to the Senate Watergate Committee or to Woodward and Bernstein. This new information not only reveals remarkable insights into Nixon's motivation for Watergate, but also answers the two most important remaining questions: What were the Watergate burglars after? And why was Nixon willing to risk his Presidency to get it? Watergate: The Hidden History reexamines the historical record, including new material only available in recent years. This includes thousands of recently declassified CIA and FBI files, newly released Nixon tapes, and exclusive interviews with those involved in the events surrounding Watergate—ranging from former Nixon officials to key aides for John and Robert Kennedy. This book also builds on decades of investigations by noted journalists and historians, as well as long–overlooked investigative articles from publications like Time magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times.
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Download or read book Dorwart s History of the Office of Naval Intelligence 1865 1945 written by Jeffery Dorwart and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the history of the founding in 1882 and operation through two world wars of America's first permanent intelligence agency, the Office of Naval Intelligence. In this study Dr. Jeffery M. Dorwart shows how and why a tiny late 19th century U.S. Navy bureau created to collect information about foreign warship design became during two world wars a complex and sometimes troubled domestic and worldwide intelligence agency. More significantly, this history of O.N.I. demonstrates how the founders and first generations of U.S. naval officers trained to man warships at sea confronted what seemed an inherent dilemma in new missions that interfered with providing technical and operational information to their navy. Dorwart explains the forces that created this dilemma and how ONI officers responded in different ways to their intelligence mission. This history recounts how from the very beginning ONI duty during the last decades of the 19th century seemed conflicting. Some found the new assignment very rewarding in collecting and collating data for the U.S. to build a "New Navy" of steel and steam-powered warships armed with the latest rifled ordnance. But other naval officers saw assignment to this tiny office as a monotonous dead-end assignment endangering their careers as shipboard operators. Dorwart shows how the first and second world wars and interwar period dramatically accelerated the naval intelligence office's dilemma. The threats in both oceans from powerful enemy navies equipped with the latest technology and weaponry gave an urgency to the collection of information on the strategies, warships, submarines, and aircraft development of potential and actual naval enemies. But at the same time ONI was asked to provide information of possible domestic threats from suspected enemy spies, terrorists, saboteurs or anti-war opponents. This led ONI officers to wiretap, break and enter, pursue surveillance of all types of people from foreign agents to Americans suspected of opposition to strengthening the U.S. Navy or becoming involved in world wars. This history explains that many ONI directors and officers were highly motivated to collect as much information as possible about the naval-military capabilities and strategies of Germany, Italy, Japan, and even allies. ONI officers understood that code-breaking was part of their job as well. But this all led some to become deeply involved in domestic spying, wiretapping, breaking and entering on private property. These extralegal and at times illegal operations, Dorwart argues, confused some ONI officers, leading to too much information that clouded vital intelligence such as Japanese plans to attack American naval bases. In the end, this study demonstrates the dilemma confronted between 1882 and 1945 by dedicated U.S. naval officers attached to or collecting information worldwide for the Office of Naval Intelligence.
Download or read book Disarming Hitlers V Weapons written by Chris Ransted and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the “brave men of the bomb disposal units who died disarming the weapons that Hitler hoped would save the Nazis from defeat” (Dover Express/Folkestone Herald). In 1944 the V-1s and V-2s, Hitler’s “vengeance” weapons, were regarded by the Allied leaders in London as the single greatest threat they had faced. It was feared that these flying bombs and rockets might turn the tide of war once again in Germany’s favor. Yet, little more than half of these missiles hit their targets, some failing to explode. Their wreckage lay across the southern half of England or in Europe, with contents liable to sudden and deadly ignition. It was the job of specialist Bomb Disposal teams to render the V-weapons safe and uncover their secrets. This is their story. In this unique book Chris Ransted has investigated the work of these unsung heroes who risked their lives every time they were called into action and, in the course of his research he has located the sites of many of the unexploded V-weapons, revealed here for the first time. Ransted also details the methods used by the Bomb Disposal men and the equipment they used. The book is richly illustrated with 266 photographs and diagrams, many of which have never previously been published. In completing this, the most comprehensive study of its kind, the author describes the deeds of those gallant Bomb Disposal men that were awarded one of the highest honors which could have been bestowed upon them by their country—the George Medal. “A particularly thorough and enlightening book.”—Military Vehicle Trust
Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations for 2002 Readiness of United States Forces written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: