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Panagiotis Dimitrakis is unique in discovering the intelligence files that the weeders forgot to destroy and in uncovering the documents that other researchers failed to spot. Our knowledge of the intelligence services during the Second World war and the Cold War has been greatly enhanced by his burrowing away in the national archives of Britain and the United States. His new book is a prime example of what can be achieved in breaking through the walls of secrecy that still surround the activities of secret agencies. - Dr Stephen Dorril, author of MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations

[The book] reveals an unmitigated volume of unique anecdotes, newly revealed archival resources, and the author's passion for history ... [It] can serve as a resource tool for students and historians of World War II espionage and intelligence activities to explore new paths of inquiry for themselves. * H-War * [The book] provides a much-needed resource for examining intelligence operations outside of the traditional body of literature, as well as the traditional theater of operations, in a region that is not well studied or understood. * International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence * Dimitrakis expertly reveals how clandestine warfare outside the main theatres of war altered the fate of both individuals and nations across the globe ... [the book] succeeds in illuminating the hitherto underappreciated and supremely consequential stakes of covert warfare in Latin America, saliently measures the resilience and long-term effects of fascism and reaffirms the primacy of historical contingency in shaping myriad destinies. * LSE Review of Books * An important work that nicely balances the story of Allied and Axis intelligence work in Argentina during the war with an assessment of broader geopolitical and wartime strategy there, while also providing important analysis of the role countries like Spain played. 'With meticulous research and a hugely readable style, Panagiotis Dimitrakis has produced a fascinating study of this most neglected area of Second World War history.'

In The Hidden War in Argentina, the prolific intelligence historian Panagiotis Dimitrakis provides welcome new insights into intelligence activities in Argentina during World War II ... [It] contains revelations that will interest and instruct students and specialists alike ... Dimitrakis's book fills serious gaps in our knowledge of the hidden struggle for intelligence in Argentina during the Second World War. * Michigan War Studies Review * [The book] reveals an unmitigated volume of unique anecdotes, newly revealed archival resources, and the author's passion for history ... [It] can serve as a resource tool for students and historians of World War II espionage and intelligence activities to explore new paths of inquiry for themselves. * H-War * [The book] provides a much-needed resource for examining intelligence operations outside of the traditional body of literature, as well as the traditional theater of operations, in a region that is not well studied or understood. * International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence * Dimitrakis expertly reveals how clandestine warfare outside the main theatres of war altered the fate of both individuals and nations across the globe ... [the book] succeeds in illuminating the hitherto underappreciated and supremely consequential stakes of covert warfare in Latin America, saliently measures the resilience and long-term effects of fascism and reaffirms the primacy of historical contingency in shaping myriad destinies. * LSE Review of Books * An important work that nicely balances the story of Allied and Axis intelligence work in Argentina during the war with an assessment of broader geopolitical and wartime strategy there, while also providing important analysis of the role countries like Spain played. -- Professor David A. Messenger, University of South Alabama, author of Hunting Nazis in Franco's Spain With meticulous research and a hugely readable style, Panagiotis Dimitrakis has produced a fascinating study of this most neglected area of Second World War history. -- Martin Pearce author of Spymaster: The Life of Britain's Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield

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Panagiotis Dimitrakis holds a doctorate in War Studies from King’s College London and is an expert on intelligence and military history. He is the author of The Secret War in Afghanistan (I.B.Tauris, 2013) and Military Intelligence in Cyprus: From the Great War to Middle East Crises (I.B.Tauris, 2010) amongst others.

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