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"A pioneering investigation into the secret world of wartime Persia (Iran), meticulously sourced and based on six years of extraordinarily wide and deep research in the German, British, and American archives. This study exposes the problems, pressures, and personalities among the competing German intelligence services that targeted Persia, and it describes the highly effective methods employed by the implacable Allied security forces that resisted them. It tells a riveting tale: there are parachutists, gold, guns, dynamite, double agents, mistresses, and Byzantine intrigues galore in this compelling historical narrative. At the same time, as a serious academic study and a penetrating analysis of catastrophic intelligence failure, Adrian O'Sullivan's bookis a highly significant contribution to Second World War intelligence history"--
List of contents
Prologue: Max and Moritz Invent Themselves 1. Tourists and Businessmen 2. Invaders and Occupiers 3. Schemers and Planners 4. Intelligencers 5. Ideologues and Brutes 6. Rivals 7. Recruiters and Trainers 8. MAX 9. MORITZ 10. SABA 11. Parachutes over Persia 12. FRANZ, DORA, and BERTA 13. ANTON 14. Operations and Operatives 15. Defects and Deficiencies 16. Failure Epilogue: Max and Moritz Reinvent Themselves
About the author
Adrian O'Sullivan, a former intelligence linguist, has lived and worked in the UK, Europe, North America, and the Middle East. He completed his doctorate in intelligence history at the University of South Africa. He now lives and writes in semi-retirement on a small island off the west coast of Canada.
Report
"Well worth reading ... the ultimate book on German secret service activity in Persia from 1939 to 1945." - Journal of Intelligence, Propaganda, and Security Studies
