Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NONFICTION: A Place for Noah, Josh Greenfeld ∙Families, Jane Howard Hitler's Spies, David Kahn ∙Look Who's Talking!, Emily Hahn Russian Thinkers. Isaiah Berlin The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
...HITLER'S SPIES by David Kahn Macmillan; 671 pages; $16.95 For the Third Reich, military intelligence was a contradiction in terms...
They stole drawings, for example, of the Americans' highly successful Norden bombsight-but were unable to manufacture and install it. Hitler decided to in vade Russia with no real knowledge of the Soviet economy or military machine (the Germans were unaware of the existence of the T-34, the war's best tank, and never quite believed that D-day would occur at Normandy). Lack of undercover information did not matter greatly when the German armies were advancing through Europe. But after 1944 it was literally a matter of life and death, because intelligence is essentially a defensive...
...David Kahn, author of the highly regarded study of cryptology, The Codebreakers, compellingly proves, espionage is the realistic assessment of possibilities; and Hitler, in whom all power centered, was a charismatic leader, not a realist. Like sharks, such leaders prosper only when they move constantly forward. To stand still, basking in certainty, is to drown...
...what he can get by writing for the Yiddish-language newspapers. His other support is the warmth offered by a succession of women. Chief among these is Betty Slonim, an American actress with an old, wealthy impresario boyfriend and an itch to star on the Yiddish stage. With Hitler's invasion of Poland imminent, Betty represents Aaron's ticket to freedom, to America and to the riches that will be hers when her sponsor dies...