SPIES IN THE SKY: THE SECRET BATTLE FOR AERIAL INTELLIGENCE DURING WORLD WAR II
Book ID/图书代码： 07980011B48916
English Summary/英文概要： SPIES IN THE SKY is the thrilling, little known story of the partner organisation to the famous code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park. It is the story of the daring reconnaissance pilots who took aerial photographs over Occupied Europe during the most dangerous days of the Second World War, and of the photo interpreters who invented a completely new science to analyse those pictures. They were inventive and ingenious; they pioneered the development of 3D photography and their work provided vital Intelligence throughout the war. With a whole host of larger than life characters at its heart, from the legendary pilot Adrian ’Warby’ Warburton, who went missing while on a mission, to photo interpreters Glyn Daniel, later a famous television personality, and Winston Churchill’s daughter, Sarah, SPIES IN THE SKY is compelling reading, and the first full account of the story of aerial photography and the Intelligence gleaned from it in nearly fifty years.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《空中侦查》是发生在布莱切利公园⑤(Bletchley Park)著名的密码破译中心(code-breaking centre)的合作机构的一段令人扼腕抵掌却鲜为人知的故事。这是一个关于二战危机累卵之时，那些无畏的侦察飞行员们在被占领的欧洲上空拍摄航拍照片，以及发明了一门全新的科学来分析这些照片的摄影解译人员的故事。他们独具匠心且足智多谋；他们开创了3D摄影的发展；他们的工作在整个战争中提供了至关重要的情报。
⑤布莱奇利公园，是曾经是二战期间的密码破译中心（别名X站），在这里，一群天才数学家组成的特别行动小组破解希特勒和他的高级统帅部使用的德国英格码和其他更复杂的代码。
汇聚一堂的出萃人物，从在执行一次任务失踪的，传奇飞行员亚德里安‘沃比’沃尔顿，到照片解析员格林丹尼尔，后来成为了一名著名的电视明星，和英国前首相，温斯顿丘吉尔的女儿萨拉，《空中侦察》这个让人不禁肃然起敬的故事，是近50年来第一本关于航空摄影的故事和从中收集到的情报的完整叙述。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：As Taylor Downing’s superbly researched and fluently written Spies in the Sky proves, just as important to victory in the Second World War as the code-breakers at Bletchley Park were the photo interpreters of Danesfield House at Medmenham...Downing faces head-on the charges that photo intelligence failed the Allies when it came to identifying Auschwitz and Hitler’s plans for the Battle of the Bulge, and he convinces. Staffed with larger-than-life characters such as Professor R.V. Jones, the lovely Connie Babington Smith, John Merrifield (who photographed a V-1 being test-launched) and Michael Suckling (who spotted the Bismarck), Spies in the Sky fills in a huge gap in Second World War historiography in both an exciting and intellectually stimulating way. No-one will be able to write a history of the conflict again without giving Medmenham its central role in Allied Intelligence-gathering. -- Andrew Roberts, Author Of The Storm Of War ‘A fascinating read and a significant contribution to the history of World War Two. The code-breakers of Bletchley have become internationally renowned. Now Taylor Downing tells the unsung story of the photo-analysts of Medmenham and the heroic pilots, putting them back where they belong - at the heart of this secret war’
[Interviewer’s introduction] Spy planes made a huge contribution to allied efforts in World War II, according to a new book Spies in the Sky. Its author Taylor Downing and Geoffrey Stone, who served at RAF Medmenham base in Buckinghamshire during the war, trace the history of these aerial spies - http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9582000/9582027.stm
About the Author/作者介绍： Taylor Downing was educated at Cambridge and went on to become Managing Director and Head of History at Flashback Television.
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