Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
by:
Ben Macintyre (author)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A SPY AMONG FRIENDS On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. A stunning military accomplishment, it was also a masterpiece of trickery. Operation Fortitude, which protected...
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A SPY AMONG FRIENDS On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. A stunning military accomplishment, it was also a masterpiece of trickery. Operation Fortitude, which protected and enabled the invasion, and the Double Cross system, which specialized in turning German spies into double agents, tricked the Nazis into believing that the Allied attacks would come in Calais and Norway rather than Normandy. It was the most sophisticated and successful deception operation ever carried out, ensuring Allied victory at the most pivotal point in the war. This epic event has never before been told from the perspective of the key individuals in the Double Cross system, until now. Together they made up one of the oddest and most brilliant military units ever assembled.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780307888761 (0307888762)
Publish date: July 31st 2012
Publisher: Broadway Books
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Book Club,
War,
Military,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage,
World War II,
Military History,
European History
This book. Is. Amazing.Do you know how many uncaptured German spies were operating in Britain during WWII?Zero.That's right.Every single German spy was either captured or became part of MI5's XX System, aka "Double-Cross." And each one of them was... a character. As McIntyre puts it: "They included...
Those familiar with WWII would know that the Normandy landings were one of its milestones but most would not know the espionage operations that went towards ensuring its success, and their extent. 'Double Cross' does an excellent job of introducing the reader to Operation Fortitude - the operation t...
I've read Ben Macintyre's Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory and Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal and his last book Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies about MI5 work in WW2 is just interes...
Double agents in WWII! Non-fiction, but very well told and a fascinating part of the war story.
Book of The Weekblurbs - A team of agents (codenames Bronx, Brutus, Treasure, Tricycle and Garbo) is recruited to work as part of the 'Double Cross System' run by the secret Twenty Committee.D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a trium...
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