London Macmillan 1989 Second Printing Hardcover Very good in Very good jacket [6], 258 pages. Illustrations. Index. Some page discoloration. Includes chapters on First Chance; Second Chance; Far East; Australasia; Yeomanry; Royal Flying Corps; Prisoner of war; Oxford; Farming; Africa; Secret Service; Rosenberg; Hitler; The People and the Generals; High-Level Espionage; The Showdown; Detente; Erich Koch; Strength Through joy; Exposure; Spy Plane; The Ultra Plan; The Battles of France and Britain; The Mediterranean; Italy; Overture; Overlord; Victory; The End of the War and After; and Index. Winterbotham's life spans the whole of this century, and he has been involved in some of its most dramatic and dangerous moments. Frederick William Winterbotham CBE (16 April 1897-28 January 1990) was a British Royal Air Force officer (latterly a Group Captain) who during World War II supervised the distribution of Ultra intelligence. His book The Ultra Secret was the first popular account of Ultra to be published in Britain. In 1916 he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps and became a fighter pilot. He was shot down and captured on 13 July 1917, in Passchendaele, and spent the rest of the war in Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp. After the war, Winterbotham began the process of building up an intelligence service for the RAF. His job was to gather information on the development of military aviation in hostile or potentially hostile countries. He recruited agents, and filed and analyzed ...

London: Macmillan, Date: 1989. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. [6], 258 pages. Illustrations. Index. Some page discoloration. Includes chapters on First Chance; Second Chance; Far East; Australasia; Yeomanry; Royal Flying Corps; Prisoner of war; Oxford; Farming; Africa; Secret Service; Rosenberg; Hitler; The People and the Generals; High-Level Espionage; The Showdown; Detente; Erich Koch; Strength Through joy; Exposure; Spy Plane; The Ultra Plan; The Battles of France and Britain; The Mediterranean; Italy; Overture; Overlord; Victory; The End of the War and After; and Index. Winterbotham's life spans the whole of this century, and he has been involved in some of its most dramatic and dangerous moments. Frederick William Winterbotham CBE (16 April 1897 - 28 January 1990) was a British Royal Air Force officer (latterly a Group Captain) who during World War II supervised the distribution of Ultra intelligence. His book The Ultra Secret was the first popular account of Ultra to be published in Britain. In 1916 he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps and became a fighter pilot. He was shot down and captured on 13 July 1917, in Passchendaele, and spent the rest of the war in Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp. After the war, Winterbotham began the process of building up an intelligence service for the RAF. His job was to gather information on the development of military aviation in hostile or potentially hostile countries. He recruited agents, and filed and ...