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Originally Posted by piperclassique
Picked up a history of intelligence work in WW2 from Kobo US today 1.99 dollars, normal price 16.99, but it's cheaper on Amazon. UK at £5.99
The secret war, by Max Hastings
Lot of pictures, big file.
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Another book with the same title and well worth a read
The Secret War (1939-1945) by Gerald Pawle (1956) with a
foreword by Nevil Shute
Review
http://www.nevilshute.org/Reviews/thesecretwar.php
This book tells the story of the "Wheezers and Dodgers", DMWD of the British Royal Navy; the Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development. Nevil Shute Norway spent most of the war working in this department, as a Lieutenant Commander, on the development of various weapons and devices for the Naval War effort. Shute had been working with his old Chief from the R100 project, Sir Dennistoun Burney, on the design of a gliding torpedo when Germany invaded the Low Countries. He decided that he should put down his slide-rule and go off and fight. At 40 he was too old to fly on operations, but the Navy were looking for "Elderly Yachtsmen", he wrote offering his services in the RNVR (Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve) and they accepted.
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https://archive.org/search.php?query...erald+Pawle%22
Free Kindle and ePub downloads available, not great quality but readable
https://archive.org/details/secretwar193945007234mbp
I edit to say that a later edition, retitled is available on Kindle and as a pbook
Someone messed up the author's name so search failed to find it.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wheezers-Do...dp/B00KC3LKAE/
The Wheezers & Dodgers: The Inside Story of Clandestine Weapon Development in World War II by Garald Pawle (Author)