Description: 1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN: 9780307990464,
Language: English
Title from: Title details screen
Number of tracks: 10
Duration: 12:39:01
Transfer to Apple device: Yes
OverDrive subjects: History, Military, Nonfiction
Reader: John Lee
In his celebrated bestsellers Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, Ben Macintyre told the dazzling true stories of a remarkable WWII double agent and of how the Allies employed a corpse to fool the Nazis and assure a decisive victory. In Double Cross, Macintyre returns with the untold story of the grand final deception of the war and of the extraordinary spies who achieved it. On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. D-Day was a stunning military accomplishment, but 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, deceived the Nazis into believing that the Allies would attack at Calais and Norway rather than Normandy. It was the most sophisticated and successful deception operation ever carried out, ensuring..
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy
World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence
World War, 1939-1945 -- Deception
Deception (Military science) -- History -- 20th century
Espionage -- History -- 20th century -- Europe
Spies -- Biography -- Europe
Downloadable audiobooks
OverDrive -- Adult collection
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Added--201209 ovd
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