Howard
Howarth, David Armine. The Shetland Bus. London: Nelson, 1951. Across to Norway. [?]: Sloane, 1952.
Pforzheimer, Studies 5.2 (Spring 1961), says that this is the story of Norwegian escapees from the Nazis "assembled at a British base in the Shetland Islands (where the author was deputy commander)." They used their boats to transport "saboteurs, agents, and refugees" between Norway and the islands.
[WWII/Eur/Res/Norway]
Howarth, Patrick.
Intelligence Chief Extraordinary: The Life of the Ninth Duke of Portland.
London: Bodley Head, 1986.
Clark comment: This is a biography of Sir Victor Cavendish-Bentinck, who headed the Joint Intelligence Council (JIC) during World War II.
Sexton views Howarth's work as "[e]ssential for understanding the organizational and structural innovations that marked the advent of intelligence as an essential factor in the national decision-making process." To Foot, I&NS 2.1, this biography is "rewarding."
[UK/WWII/Overviews]
Howarth, Patrick.
Special Operations. London: Routledge & Keegan Paul, 1955.
Wilcox: "Account of British Special Operations during World War II."
[UK/WWII/Overviews]
Howarth,
Patrick. Undercover: The Men and Women of Special Operations Executive.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980.
Constantinides: Howarth "adds an extra dimension and insight into [SOE], the persons staffing it, and personal relationships.... [His] biography is one of the most complete on SOE.... [B]ut there are shortcomings.... [There is a] feeling that Howarth unintentionally painted too glowing a portrait of the organization in his anxiety to pay tribute to individual members and operatives."
[UK/WWII/Services/SOE]
Howarth, Stephen,
and Derek Law, eds. The Battle of the Atlantic. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1994. London: Greenhill. 1994.
[WWII/Atlantic]
Howe, Ellic.
The Black Game: British Subversive Operations against the German during the Second World War. London: Futura, 1982.
[UK/WWII/Services/PWE]
Howe, John. A
Journal Kept by Mr. John Howe, While He Was Employed as a British Spy in
the Revolutionary War. Concord, NH: Luther Roby, 1827.
Constantinides notes that this work, written by an individual whose identity was (perhaps, is) in doubt for 150 years, is difficult to evaluate as to trustworthiness. Bakeless quotes from it in Turncoats, Traitors and Heroes (1959). McKone in his General Sullivan (1977) suggested that Howe was an alias of John Hall who was linked to the defection of Benedict Arnold
[RevWar/Other]
Howe, Russell
Warren. The Hunt for "Tokyo Rose." Lanham, MD: Madison
Books, 1990.
Surveillant 1.1: Howe presents a "highly readable reconstruction of the life of Iva Toguri, the California-born Nisei." The book includes "detailed references to the actual trial transcripts."
[WWII/FE/Pac]
Howe, Russell
Warren. Mata Hari: The True Story. New York: Dodd & Mead, 1986.
Wheeler, IJI&C 1.3, calls this a "disappointing book.... What is new is the elaborate detail Howe has provided showing how French Intelligence victimized Mata Hari by creating a patently phoney case against her." The author provides a "detailed but plodding analysis" and his "grasp of the details and trends of World War I history is at times both uncertain and dubious.... [H]is picture of the secret war of codes and ciphers in World War I is full of gross generalizations, weak interpretations, and errors of fact." Howe's analysis of Mata Hari's character and attitudes "lacks verisimilitude and objectivity."
The author of what is generally regarded as the most accurate work on Mata Hari, Waagenaar, I&NS 2.4, basically destroys Howe's work in a detailed, almost point-by-point review. He finds Howe's research "unreliable," and his thesis that Mata Hari was framed by the French "erroneous." In addition, Howe made "a total hodge-podge of the details of Mata Hari's espionage efforts."
[France/WWI; Women/WWI]
Howe,
Russell Warren. Sleeping with the FBI: Sex, Booze, Russians and the Saga of an American Counterspy Who Couldn't. Washington, DC.: National Press Books, 1993.
Surveillant 2.6 believes this book "gives far more credibility" to Miller's "'investigation' of the KGB than probably ever existed (until he was caught)."
Harter, FILS 12.6, comments that the book has "no footnotes, endnotes, nor bibliography.... The KGB seems omnipresent, while the FBI is represented as bungling in comparison.... [I]nformed ... opinion on this operation ... is not evident." There are also other errors.
[FBI/To90s/Miller]
Howell, Fred
Stanley. The Snoopers. New York: Vantage, 1992.
Surveillant 2.4: Covert action in World War II.
[WWII/Gen]
Howland, Richard Cabot. "The Lessons of the September 30 Affair." Studies in Intelligence 14, no. 2 (Fall 1970): 13-29.
One who was there looks back at the events in Indonesia in late September-early October 1965. "In Djakarta,... we were particularly struck by the uniquely indigenous character of the events which led to the purge attempt [against the army] and by the minimal influence on its outcome that could be ascribed to non-Indonesian factors.... [I]t was, from start to finish, a peculiarly and exclusively Indonesian phenomenon.... By the time the great powers realized what was underway, it was too late to help or hinder either side."
[CA/Indonesia]
Hoxie,
R. Gordon, et al. The Presidency and National Security Policy. New York: Center for the Study of the Presidency, 1984.
[GenPostwar/NatSec]
Hoy,
Hugh C. 40 O.B.: Or, How the War Was Won. London: Hutchinson, 1932.
Constantinides: Much more is known today about Room 40's accomplishments than when this book was published. In its day, it was "an early disclosure of Admiral Hall's activities in British naval intelligence in World War I." Among matters covered are "the Zimmermann note, the case of Sir Roger Casement, the neutralizing of Trebitsch Lincoln, and the capture of Carl Lody."
[WWI/UK; WWI/Zimmermann]
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