Introduction -- chapter one. License to kill -- chapter two. Boating to safety: operation dynamo -- chapter three. Churchill's secret army -- chapter four. Code-breaking, ultra style -- chapter five. The dreaded Nachthexen (night witches) -- chapter six. Cows can kill -- chapter seven. Hiding in plain sight -- chapter eight. Dead man floating (aka operation mincemeat) -- chapter nine. Bouncing bombs away -- chapter 10. Pulling off the ultimate fake-out -- chapter eleven. D-Day: invasion -- chapter twelve. Ghost armies, secret missions, and assassination attempts -- chapter thirteen. Covert spies working behind enemy lines -- chapter fourteen. Super-secret code talkers -- chapter fifteen. A ticking time bomb -- A final note -- Selected bibiliography -- For further information -- Photograph credits -- Index

"In the late 1930s...the world was again at war, hardly more than twenty years after the First World War had ended... Leaders of every country had to try to end the war as fast as possible and using whatever mean they could. That meant coming up with secret operations meant to deceive, deflect, and confuse their enemies."--front flap