Jeffrey, Andrew. This
Present Emergency: Edinburgh, the River Forth, and South-East Scotland and
the Second World War. Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1993. Jeffrey, Andrew. This
Present Emergency: Edinburgh, the River Forth, and South-East Scotland and
the Second World War. Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1993.
Watt, I&NS 9.3, finds this book to be a "short survey of the course of the Second World War as it affected south-eastern Scotland.... Chapter 5 recapitulates in convincing detail the fate of the three Abwehr agents landed in 1941." Jeffrey "uses this episode ... to cover the ... deception operations mounted annually ... from northern Scotland."
Johnson, Brian. The Secret War. New York: Methuen, 1978. London: BBC Publications, 1978.
According to Constantinides, this book is based on a BBC television series. This account of "scientific, technical, and cryptologic" aspects of World War II presents a "wider perspective" than R.V. Jones' The Wizard War. Sexton calls The Secret War a "detailed and richly illustrated history of the scientific side of World War II." Similarly, Nautical Brass Bibliography gives this "profusely illustrated" book a "highly recommended" notation.
Johnson, Stowers. Agents
Extraordinary. London: Hale, 1975.
Wilcox identifies this book as an "account of British special agents, spies, [and] saboteurs,... during World War II."
Jones, Kevin. "From
the Horse's Mouth: Luftwaffe POWs as Sources for Air Ministry Intelligence
During the Battle of Britain." Intelligence and National Security
15, no. 4 (Winter 2000): 60-80.
"For an intelligence art still in its infancy, the Battle of Britain was a godsend to POW-derived intelligence and its ability to contribute significantly to a campaign's outcome. With a steady stream of subjects literally falling from the skies..., A11(k) [the Air Ministry intelligence section responsible for POW interrogation] was able to produce detailed and effective intelligence quickly enough for it to be of immediate operational and tactical use."
Jones,
R.V. "Anglo-American Cooperation in the Wizard War." In In
the Name of Intelligence: Essays in Honor of Walter Pforzheimer, eds.
Hayden B. Peake and Samuel Halpern, 299-312. Washington, DC: NIBC Press,
1994.
Jones,
R.V. "Intelligence and Command." Intelligence and National
Security 3, no. 3 (Jul. 1988): 288-298.
These are interesting but brief musings by Jones on the relationship between intelligence and decisionmakers, drawing on examples from his personal experience in World War II.
Jones,
R.V. The Wizard War: British Scientific Intelligence, 1939-1945.
New York: Coward, McCann, & Geoghegan, 1978. Most Secret War: British
Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978. London:
Hodder & Stoughton, 1990.
Clark comment: British physicist Reginald Victor Jones headed scientific intelligence for the British Air Staff in World War II and served as scientific adviser to the SIS. His accomplishments are many but perhaps best known is his development of methods to defeat the Germans' radar and their use of radio-beam targeting of Britain. Jones is often called "the father of scientific intelligence"; he is the namesake and first recipient of the CIA's R.V. Jones Intelligence Award. Jones died on 17 December 1997. See Ken Cormier, "EW Pioneer R.V. Jones Dies at 86," Journal of Electronic Defense (Jan. 1998), 29-30.
Pforzheimer calls The Wizard War "important reading about the development of scientific intelligence in Britain." According to Constantinides, "[t]his is not only one of the great works on scientific intelligence in World War II but one of the great personal memoirs in intelligence literature." To Sexton, Jones "paints a fascinating picture of the intelligence process and the ways in which diverse sources complemented ULTRA."
Kilzer,
Louis C. Churchill's Deception: The Dark Secret That Destroyed Nazi Germany.
New York, Simon and Schuster, 1994. [Seymour]
Langhorne, Richard, ed. Diplomacy and Intelligence During the Second World War: Essays in
Honor of F.H. Hinsley. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. 2003. [pb]
Leasor, James.
1. Green Beach. New York: Morrow, 1975. London: Heinemann, 1975.
Constantinides calls Green Beach "a journalist's account of the portion of the Dieppe raid in 1942 concerned with the attempt to dismantle a German radar station.... There are some good anecdotes, but ... there is no specific documentation and too much on personal and human-interest matters." The intelligence side (British and German) of this operation is not as well developed as it might have been.
2. The Unknown Warrior. London: Heinemann, 1980.
Wilcox: World War II British intelligence operation.
Lewis, Bex. "'Careless Talk Costs Lives': The Government's Information Security Campaign on the Home Front." Everyone's War 15 (Spring/Summer 2007): 44-49.
Lynn, Vera. The
Women Who Won the War. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1990.
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