TK: Working Bibliography (SecLit)
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Aksin, Sina. ‘Turkey’s Declaration of War on Germany at the End of World War II’. In The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations, 33:285–91. Ankara: Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara University, 2002.
‘Allied Relations and Negotiations with Turkey’. U.S. and Allied Wartime and Postwar Relations and Negotiations With Argentina, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey on Looted Gold and German External Assets and U.S. Concerns About the Fate of the Wartime Ustasha Treasury. Washington, DC: United States Department of State, June 1998.
Alloul, Houssine, Edhem Eldem, and Henk de Smaele, eds. To Kill a Sultan: A Transnational History of the Attempt on Abdülhamid II (1905). London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Anglim, Simon. ‘MI(R), G(R) and British Covert Operations, 1939-42’. Intelligence and National Security 20, no. 4 (2005): 631–53. ‘Anglo-Turkish Agreement’, 12 May 1939. Hansard 1803–2005. https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1939/may/12/anglo-turkish-agreement.
Arditti, Roger. ‘Security Intelligence in the Middle East (SIME): Joint Security Intelligence Operations in the Middle East, c. 1939–58’. Intelligence and National Security 31, no. 3 (2016): 369–96.
Atherton, Louise. SOE Operations in Africa and the Middle East: A Guide to the Records in the Public Record Office. Kew: PRO, 1998.
Baxter, Christopher. ‘Forgeries and Spies: The Foreign Office and the “Cicero” Case’. Intelligence and National Security 23, no. 6 (2008): 807–26.
Bein, Amit. Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East: International Relations in the Interwar Period. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Bendeck, Whitney. ‘A’ Force : The Origins of British Deception in the Second World War. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2013.
Berridge, G. R. British Diplomacy in Turkey, 1583 to the Present: A Study in the Evolution of the Resident Embassy. Diplomatic Studies. Vol. 3. Leiden: Nijhoff, 2009.
Bezci, Egemen B. ‘Review of Ryan Gingeras, Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey (2014)’. Reviews in History, 16 April 2015.
Bezci, Egemen B. ‘Turkey’s Intelligence Diplomacy during the Second World War’. Journal of Intelligence History 15, no. 2 (2016): 80–95.
Binney, Marcus. Women Who Lived for Danger: The Women Agents of SOE in the Second World War. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2002.
Boșcan, Liliana Elena. ‘Activity of the Special Operation Executive in Romania via Turkey, 1943 - 1944’. Journal of Anglo-Turkish Relations 2, no. 1 (January 2021): 11–23.
** Clarke, Dudley. Seven Assignments. London: Jonathan Cape, 1948.
Cohen, Julia P. Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Corse, Edward. ‘Keeping the Pot Boiling: British Propaganda in Neutral Turkey during the Second World War’. Munitions of the Mind (blog), 2018. https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/munitions-of-the-mind/2018/12/04/keeping-the-pot-boiling-british-propaganda-in-neutral-turkey-during-the-second-world-war/.
———. ‘Propaganda Wars’. Key Military, 19 May 2021. https://www.keymilitary.com/article/rumour-mill.
Crawford, J. Stewart. The Women of Turkey as Affected by the Revolution. Chicago: Women’s Presbyterian Board of Missions of the Northwest, n.d.
Deletant, Dennis. British Clandestine Activities in Romania during the Second World War. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
———. ‘Researching MI6 and Romania, 1940–49’. Slavonic and East European Review (SEER) 89, no. 4 (October 2011): 662–89.
Dockter, Warren. ‘“A Friendly Neutral”: Churchill and Turkey in the Second World War’. Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies 23, no. 6 (2021): 872–95.
Dovey, H.O. ‘The Eighth Assignment, 1941–1942’. Intelligence and National Security 11, no. 4 (October 1996): 672–95.
———. ‘The Eighth Assignment, 1943–1945’. Intelligence and National Security 12, no. 2 (April 1997): 69–90.
———. ‘The Intelligence War in Turkey’. Intelligence and National Security 9, no. 1 (1994): 59–87.
Durning, Dan. ‘Vienna’s Café Louvre in the 1920s & 1930s: Meeting Place for Foreign Correspondents’, February 2012.
Ellison, Keith. ‘MI6 Section V in WW2’. Unpublished, rev. 2020 2017.
———. Special Counter Intelligence in WW2 Europe. BAM! Publishing, 2017.
Foot, M.R.D. An Outline History of the Special Operations Executive, 1940–46. London: BBC, 1984.
———. Secret Lives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Friling, Tuvia. ‘Between Friendly and Hostile Neutrality: Turkey and the Jews during World War II’. In The Last Ottoman Century and Beyond, 309–423. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University: Chair for the History and Culture of the Jews of Salonika and Greece, Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center, 2002.
———. ‘Istanbul 1942-1945: The Kollek-Avriel and Berman-Ofner Networks’. In Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust: Collected Essays from the Colloquium at the City University of New York Graduate Center, 105–56. New York: Enigma, 2006.
Gartzonikas, Panagiotis. ‘Amphibious and Special Operations in the Aegean Sea 1943-1945: Operational Effectiveness and Strategic Implications’. MA/MSc thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, 2003.
Gerolymatos, André. Guerilla Warfare and Espionage in Greece, 1940-1944. New York: Pella, 1992.
———. The British and the Greek Resistance, 1936-1944: Spies, Saboteurs, and Partisans. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2018.
Giraud, Edmund H. Family Records: A Record of the Origin and History of the Giraud and Whittall Families of Turkey. Smyrna, 1934.
Gökay, Bülent. ‘The Illicit Adventures of Rawlinson’. In The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations, 23:89–99. Ankara: Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara University, 1993.
Güçlü, Yücel. ‘Turco-British Rapprochement on the Eve of the Second World War’. In The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations, 27:59–107. Ankara: Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara University, 1997.
———. ‘Turkish-German Relations from Montreux to the Second World War’. In The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations, 29:49–82. Ankara: Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara University, 1999.
Gündüz, Mustafa. ‘Militarising School: Militarism in the Turkish Educational System (1926-1947)’. Paedagogica Historica 54, no. 3 (2018): 287–300.
Guttstadt, Corry. Turkey, the Jews, and the Holocaust. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Hakki, Murat Metin. ‘Surviving the Pressure of the Superpowers: An Analysis of Turkish Neutrality during the Second World War’. Chronicon 3 (2007 1999): 44–62.
Hale, William. ‘Turkey and Britain in World War II: Origins and Results of the Tripartite Alliance, 1935-40’. Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies 23, no. 6 (2021): 824–44.
Helm, Sarah. A Life in Secrets: The Story of Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE. London: Little, Brown, 2005.
‘History and Mission of the Counter Intelligence Corps in World War II (Special Text)’. CIC School, Counter Intelligence Corps Center, n.d. https//:irp.fas.org/agency/army/cic-wwii.pdf.
Holt, Thaddeus. The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War. New York: Scribner, 2004.
Holzwarth, Larry. ‘Ten Operations of the Office of Strategic Services during World War Two’. History Collection, 28 May 2018. https://historycollection.com/10-operations-of-the-office-of-strategic-services-during-world-war-two/8/.
Ihrig, Stefan. Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2014.
Jähnicke, Burkhard. ‘Lawyer, Politician, Intelligence Officer: Paul Leverkuehn in Turkey, 1915–1916 and 1941–1944’. Journal of Intelligence History 2, no. 2 (2002): 69–87.
Jeffrey, Keith, and Alan Sharp. ‘Lord Curzon and the Use of Secret Intelligence at the Lausanne Conference: 1922-1923’. In The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations, 23:79–87. Ankara: Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara University, 1993.
Kahn, Martin. ‘British Intelligence on Soviet War Potential in 1939: A Revised Picture and Some Implications (A Contribution to the “Unending Debate”)’. Intelligence and National Security 28, no. 5 (2013): 717–47.
Kaplan, Neil. ‘MI6 Agent Who Issued Lifesaving Visas—Turkey WW2’. Our Passports: The Passion for Old Passports and Documents, 7 December 2018. http://ourpassports.com/mi6-agent-who-issued-lifesaving-visas-turkey-ww2/.
Katz, David S. The Shaping of Turkey in the British Imagination, 1776–1923. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41060-9.
King, Charles. Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul. New York: Norton, 2014.
Leverkuehn, Paul. Der geheime Nachrichtendienst der deutschen Wehrmacht im Kriege. Frankfurt: Athenäum, 1957.
———. German Military Intelligence. Translated by R.H. Stevens and Constantine FitzGibbon. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1954.
Lintott, Brett. ‘Confidence Men: The Mediterranean Double-Cross System, 1941–45’. PhD diss., Toronto, 2015.
———. The Mediterranean Double-Cross System, 1941-1945. London: Routledge, 2018.
Macfie, A.L. ‘The Turkish Straits in the Second World War, 1939–45’. Middle Eastern Studies 25, no. 2 (April 1989): 238–48.
McKernan, Betty. ‘Updating the Whittalls of Turkey Genealogy in 1996 and Organizing the Reunion of 1999’. Levantine Heritage, October 2015. http://www.levantineheritage.com/pdf/Updating-the-Whittalls-of-Turkey-genealogy-in-1996-Betty-McKernan.pdf.
Melbourne, Roy M. Conflict and Crises: A Foreign Service Story. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1997.
Menzel, Thomas. ‘Organisationsgeschichte des Amtes Ausland/Abwehr im Spiegel der Aktenüberlieferung im Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv, Freiburg i.Br.’ Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift 67 (2008): 105–36.
** Meyer, Winfried. Klatt: Hitlers jüdischer Meisteragent gegen Stalin: Überlebenskunst in Holocaust und Geheimdienstkrieg. Berlin: Metropol, 2015.
Molesworth, Georgina. ‘Anatolian Memory’. Unpublished, n.d.
‘Neutrality’. In Encyclopaedia Britannica, 8 January 2020. https://www.britannica.com/topic/neutrality.
O’Connor, Bernard. Blowing Up the Danube: British Intrigue in the Balkans during the Second World War. Morrisville, NC: Lulu Press, 2022.
Önsoy, Murat. ‘The World War Two Allied Economic Warfare: The Case of Turkish Chrome Sales’. PhD Thesis, Dr phil diss., Nürnberg, 2009.
O’Sullivan, Adrian. Nazi Secret Warfare in Occupied Persia (Iran): The Failure of the German Intelligence Services, 1939-45. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Owen, Roger. ‘British and French Intelligence in Their Modern Middle Eastern Empires’. The European Legacy 14, no. 4 (2009): 467–70.
———. ‘British and French Military Intelligence in Syria and Palestine, 1914-1918: Myths and Reality’. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 38, no. 1 (n.d.): 1–6.
Papen, Franz von. Memoirs. Translated by Brian Connell. London: Andre Deutsch, 1952.
Ranck, Aaron. ‘The Sinews of War: Turkey, Chromite, and the Second World War’. MA thesis, Bilkent, 2008.
Robins, Philip. Turkey and the Middle East. London: Pinter, 1991.
Rollin, Michael W. ‘The Third Reich’s Relations with the Turkish Republic, 1933–1944’. MA thesis, Montana, 1968.
Roosevelt, Archie. For Lust of Knowing: Memoirs of an Intelligence Officer. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988.
Roosevelt, Jr, Archibald B. ‘World War II’s Most Secret Nest of Spies’. The Washington Post, 24 July 1989.
Roth, Karl Heinz. ‘Vorposten Nahost: Franz von Papen als deutscher Türkeibotschafter 1939-1944’. Comparativ 14, no. 1 (n.d.): 107–25.
Rubin, Barry. Istanbul Intrigues. New York: Pharos, 1991.
Rubin, Barry, and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz. Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014.
Sever, Aysegul. ‘“Keeping Her Powder Dry”: Turkey’s Commercial Ties with Britain in the 1940s’. In The Foreign Office, Commerce and British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century, edited by John Fisher, Effie Pedaliu, and Richard Smith. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Seydi, Süleyman. ‘The Activities of Special Operations Executive in Turkey’. Middle Eastern Studies 40, no. 4 (n.d.): 153–70.
Shaw, Stanford J. History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. Vol. 2. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. ———. Turkey and the Holocaust: Turkey’s Role in Rescuing Turkish and European Jewry from Nazi Persecution, 1933–1945. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993.
Sheffy, Yigal. ‘British Intelligence and the Middle East, 1900-1918: How Much Do We Know?’ Intelligence and National Security 17, no. 1 (2002): 33–52.
Simer, Zeynep Naz. ‘Impacts of a Levantine Bourgeois Family; the “Whittalls in 19th Century Ottoman Empire’. MA thesis, Istanbul Bilgi, 2014.
Stafford, David. Britain and European Resistance, 1940–1945: A Survey of the Special Operations Executive, with Documents. London: Macmillan, 1980.
Tamkin, Nicholas. ‘Britain, the Middle East, and the “Northern Front”, 1941–1942’. War in History 15, no. 3 (n.d.): 314–36.
———. Britain, Turkey and the Soviet Union, 1940–45: Strategy, Diplomacy and Intelligence in the Eastern Mediterranean. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9780230221475.
———. ‘Diplomatic Sigint and the British Official Mind during the Second World War: Soviet Claims on Turkey, 1940-45’. Intelligence and National Security 23, no. 6 (2008): 749–66.
The Telegraph. ‘Litzi Gedye (Obituary)’, 3 September 2005. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1497481/Litzi-Gedye.html.
‘Tripartite Treaty’, 19 October 1939. Hansard 1803–2005. https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1939/oct/19/tripartite-treaty.
War Report of the OSS (Office of Strategic Services). Vol. 2: The Overseas Targets. New York: Walker, 1976.
Weber, Frank G. The Evasive Neutral: Germany, Britain and the Quest for a Turkish Alliance in the Second World War. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1979.
Whittall, David. ‘Our Levantine Heritage’, 19 September 2015.
Whittall, Desmond. ‘The British Chamber of Commerce of Turkey: A History’. Levantine Heritage (blog), 2008. http://www.levantineheritage.com/note52.htm.
Whittall, Hugh. The Whittalls of Turkey, 1809–1973, n.d.
Williams, Manuela. ‘Mussolini’s Secret War in the Mediterranean and the Middle East: Italian Intelligence and the British Response’. Intelligence and National Security 22, no. 6 (2007): 881–904.
Wires, Richard. The Cicero Spy Affair: German Access to British Secrets in World War II. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999.
Wylie, Neville. The Politics and Strategy of Clandestine War: Special Operations Executive, 1940-1946. London: Routledge, 2007.
———. ‘Ungentlemanly Warriors or Unreliable Diplomats? Special Operations Executive and “Irregular Political Activities” in Europe’. Intelligence and National Security 20, no. 1 (2005): 98–120.
Wynn, Antony. Three Camels to Smyrna: Times of War and Peace in Turkey, Persia, India, Afghanistan and Nepal 1907–1986: The Story of the Oriental Carpet Manufacturers Company, n.d.
Zamir, Meir. The Secret Anglo-French War in the Middle East: Intelligence and Decolonization, 1940–1948. London: Routledge, 2015.
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