By Ken Follett
Ken Follett follows his bestsellers Jackdaws and Code to 0 with a unprecedented novel of the early days of global conflict II...
It is June 1941 and the warfare isn't really going good for England. around the North Sea, eighteen-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcut at the German-occupied Danish island of Sande and discovers an fantastic sight that might swap the momentum of the conflict. He needs to get observe to England-except that he has no option to get there. He has purely an previous derelict Hornet Moth biplane rusting away in a ruined church: a aircraft so decrepit that it's not likely ever to get off the ground...even if Harald knew tips on how to fly it.
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In others only important words and phrases were enciphered. 24 Listening to the Russians were operators at the German radio station at Thorn. The chief had put the operators, who had long idle periods, to work eavesdropping on the enemy. 25 The basic Russian objective was first revealed, not by communications intelligence, but by acquisition of a Russian document. An order found on the body of a Russian officer who had been killed in battle on August 20, 1914, spelled out the Russian goals. 26 After a bloody battle with the German I Corps, Rennenkampf 's army was headed toward its rendezvous with Samsonov's troops.
26 Other British networks performed a variety of intelligence and intelligence-related functions. Five networks were engaged in watching aerodromes, reporting on German aircraft, and aiding downed Allied airmen to escape. 27 French Spies French spies also made their contribution to the Allied effort. The activities of agents in Belgium, Holland, and the portions of France under German control were directed by a joint British-French post at Folkestone. 28 One agent, who went by the pseudonym Carlos, was an Alsatian mobilized with the German army in 1914.
19 Train Watchers The beginning of the war threw the intelligence establishments of the major combatants into high gear. For Britain the Foreign Section, the Naval Intelligence Division, and the British Expeditionary Force all operated intelligence networks. Running agents in German-occupied France and Belgium was the responsibility of a Foreign Section network controlled by Cecil Aylmer Cameron, code-named EVELYN, from the Folkestone intelligence station in southern England. 20 22 1900-1939 The White Lady Intelligence Network, November 1918.