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of the British Association for Japanese Studies (History and International Relations) 4 (1979), 131–49; Aileen Clayton, The Enemy is Listening (London: Hutchinson, 1980), a marvellous memoir of a “Y” service officer; Michael L. Handel (ed.), Strategic and Operational Deception in the Second World War (London: Frank Cass, 1987); Walter T. Hitchcock (ed.), The Intelligence Revolution: A Historical Perspective (Washington: GPO, 1991); Wilfred J. Holmes, Double-Edged Secrets: U.S. Naval Intelligence Operations in the Pacific during World War II (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1979); Reginald V. Jones, MostSecret War: British Scientific Intelligence, 1939–1945 (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978); three books by David Kahn: The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing (New York: Macmillan, 1967), Hitler’s Spies: German Military Intelligence in World War II (New York: Macmillan, 1978), and Seizing the Enigma: The Race to Break the German U-Boat Codes, 1939–1943 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991); two books by Ronald Lewin, Ultra Goes to War (New York: Mc Graw-Hill, 1978), and The American Magic: Codes, Cyphers and the Defeat of Japan (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982); Wladyslaw Kozaczuk, Enigma: How the German Machine Cypher Was Broken, and How it Was Read by the Allies in World War II, ed. and trans. by Christopher Kasparek (Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, 1984); Richard Langhorne (ed.), Diplomacy and Intelligence during the Second World War (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1985); Jürgen Rohwer and Eberhard Jäckel (eds.), Die Funkaujklärung und ihre Rolle im 2. Weltkrieg (Stuttgart: Motorbuch, 1979); and Nigel West [pseud. of Rupert Allason?], The SIGINT Secrets: The Signals Intelligence War, 1900 to Today: Including the Persecution of Gordon Welchman (New York: Morrow, 1988).
    For sabotage and similar activities, the best introduction is Michael R.D. Foot, SOE: An Outline History of the Special Operations Executive, 1940–1946 (London: BBC Publications, 1984). On weapons systems, Fritz Hahn, Waffen und Geheimwaffen des deutschen Heeres 1933–1945 , 2 vols. (Koblenz: Bernard & Graefe, 1986–87); Dieter Holsken, “Die V-Waffen: Entwicklung und Einsatzgrundsatze,” MGM 38, NO.2 (1985), 95–122; and Alfred Price, Instruments of Darkness: The History of Elearonic Warfare (London: Macdonald &Jane’s, 1977), are particularly helpful. Many aspects of the air war are dealt with by experts on them in Horst Boog (ed.), The Condua of the Air War in the Second World War: An International Comparison (New York: Berg, 1992).
    On atomic weapons, the best works remain two official histories: Richard G. Hewlett and Oscar E. Anderson, A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, Vol. I: The New World 1939–1946 (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1962), and Vincent C. Jones, Manhattan: The Army and the Atomic Bomb (Washington, GPO, 1985). There is much scientific information along with political polemics in Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986). The British side is summarized in an originally secret book by John Ehrman, The Atomic Bomb: An Account of British Policy in the Second World War (London: Cabinet Office, July 1953).
    The listings and suggestions which have been provided are necessarily incomplete; not only have most memoirs been omitted but so have whole bodies of publications like unit histories. There are also many topics not covered at all. The notes in the back of this book will provide additional references for those subjects covered in the text, and the bibliographical aids mentioned at the beginning of this essay will offer assistance in the location of further publications.
    The volume of archives surviving from World War II is enormous. A general introduction to the subject is in James O’Neill and Robert W. Krauskopf (eds.), World War II: An Account of Its Documents (Washington: Howard Univ. Press, 1976). On the