"Stealing Secrets, Telling Lies explores how espionage and good intelligence analysis shaped or changed the outcome of many of the major geopolitical events of the twentieth century. The German victory at the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914, the entrance of the United States into World War I, the defeat of Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union's faster-than-anticipated development of the atomic bomb were all facilitated by stealing enemy secrets. Espionage and codebreaking have been instrumental in the rise, fall, and preservation of the world powers throughout history.

Introduction: Information, Please!1 -- Part 1 Great War -- 1. Herr Zimmermann's Fatal Blunder 11 -- Part 2 Cipher War -- 2. Enigma Demystified 27 -- 3. Longest Battle 59 -- 4. Outfoxing the Desert Fox 72 -- 5. Colossus 84 -- 6. Who Broke Purple? 94 -- 7. Masters of Deception 107 -- Part 3 Espionage War -- 8. Learned Spies 133 -- 9. "Lucy," Man of Mystery 155 -- Part 4 Pacific War -- 10. Infamy and Sacred Duty 177 -- 11. "Our Man in Tokyo" 190 -- Part 5 Cold War -- 12. Spy Who Knew Everything 209 -- 13. Spy of the Century 222 -- 14. Speak, Ciphers! 236 -- 15. Exposing Comrade Bluster 250 -- 16. Workers against the Workers' State 273.