The best books on how citizen spies built modern American intelligence in World War II

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The best books on deception in WW2

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Book cover of Stalin's Englishman: Guy Burgess, the Cold War, and the Cambridge Spy Ring Book cover of The Codebreakers: The Story Of Secret Writing Book cover of Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory Book cover of The Double-Cross System: The Classic Account of World War Two Spy-Masters Book cover of Diversion and Deception: Dudley Clarke's a Force and Allied Operations in World War II Book cover of For the President's Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush

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