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A large-format quarto volume titled Britain’s Secret War 1939-45: How Espionage, Codebreaking and Covert Operations Helped Win the War by Michael Smith. This work is presented in a museum-in-a-book format, featuring integrated archive folders containing various removable facsimile documents and ephemera of historical significance. The text covers key aspects of British intelligence during the Second World War, including Bletchley Park, the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the Long Range Desert Group, and the Double Cross system. Notable facsimile items include false identity cards for agents, maps, and official correspondence related to Operation Mincemeat. The volume is illustrated throughout with contemporary photographs, diagrams, and maps. Bound in publisher’s pictorial boards with a typewriter key motif to the front cover.
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