Black Ops a thrilling compendium of undercover warfare from around
the world. Here you will meet the most hardened soldiers and
operatives facing extraordinary dangers deep behind enemy lines.
The book features many amazing stories from World War II, such as the
assassination of Holocaust architect Reinhard Heydrich by Britain's
Special Operations Executive, which in 1940 received its mission from
Churchill to set Europe ablaze in the battle against Nazi tyranny. Also
told are the stories of Stalin's favourite spy; the little-known account
of how Japanese military codes were cracked; and Operation Mincemeat,
which led to the invasion of Sicily.
Written by a leading military intelligence expert, Black Ops ranges
across a century of remarkable clandestine operations. Starting with
Hans Carl Lody, the first German spy during World War I, we also have
the plot to assassinate Lenin; the origins of strategic deception; and
the Cold War defection of Oleg Gordievsky from the Soviet Union. The
book is brought right up to date with the plot to assassinate Osama bin
Laden by Navy SEALS in 2011, and the attempted assassination of the
Skripals in the UK in 2018, leading to fears that the world is on the
brink of a new Cold War.
A compelling anthology of spies, soldiers, mercenaries and assassins,
Black Ops tells the secret history of 20th- and 21st-century warfare.
