TY - BOOK AU - O'Sullivan,Adrian Denis Warren TI - Nazi secret warfare in occupied Persia (Iran): the failure of the German intelligence services, 1939-45 SN - 9781137427915 AV - D810 .N395 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - Basingstoke PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Secret service KW - Germany KW - Military intelligence KW - Iran KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - 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 book is a highly significant contribution to Second World War intelligence history UR - httpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=997924&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -