The Mediterranean Double-Cross System, 1941-1945
Awards:   Short-listed for NSW Premiers Literary Awards Poetry Prize 2004 Short-listed for Victorian Premiers Awards Poetry Prize 1998 Winner of Anne Elder Poetry Award 1992 Winner of Dame Mary Gilmore Poetry Prize 1992
Author:   Brett Lintott (University of Toronto, Canada)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780415788618


Pages:   230
Publication Date:   23 October 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Awards

  • Short-listed for NSW Premiers Literary Awards Poetry Prize 2004
  • Short-listed for Victorian Premiers Awards Poetry Prize 1998
  • Winner of Anne Elder Poetry Award 1992
  • Winner of Dame Mary Gilmore Poetry Prize 1992

Overview

This book describes and analyzes the history of the Mediterranean ""Double-Cross System"" of the Second World War, an intelligence operation run primarily by British officers which turned captured German spies into double agents. Through a complex system of coordination, they were utilized from 1941 to the end of the war in 1945 to secure Allied territory through security and counter-intelligence operations, and also to deceive the German military by passing false information about Allied military planning and operations. The primary questions addressed by the book are: how did the double-cross-system come into existence; what effects did it have on the intelligence war and the broader military conflict; and why did it have those effects? The book contains chapters assessing how the system came into being and how it was organized, and also chapters which analyze its performance in security and counter-intelligence operations, and in deception.

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Author:   Brett Lintott (University of Toronto, Canada)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.512kg
ISBN:  

9780415788618


ISBN 10:   0415788617
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   23 October 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Contents;Acknowledgments;Abbreviations and Glossary;Codenames of Military Operations and Deception Plans;A Note on References and Sources;Introduction;1: Double Agent Operations from the Outbreak of War to November 1942;2: The Development of the Mediterranean Double-Cross System;3: Strategic Deception and the 1943 Mediterranean Campaign;4: Security and Counter-Intelligence, 1942-45;5: Counter-Sabotage in Gibraltar, 1940-44.;6: Operational and Strategic Deceptions in Italy, 1944-45. ;Conclusion;Bibliography

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This is an essential read for those with an interest in intelligence operations, as Lintott offers us a look at undertakings involving different problems in a different environment. - The NYMAS Review


""This is an essential read for those with an interest in intelligence operations, as Lintott offers us a look at undertakings involving different problems in a different environment."" - The NYMAS Review


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Brett Lintott received his PhD in history from the University of Toronto in 2015

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