How a dead man and a bizarre plan fooled the nazis and assured an allied victory. But at its heart was the double cross system, a team of double agents controlled by the secret twenty committee, so named because twenty in roman numerals forms a double cross. Save over 40% all preorders are available at the membership price or one member credit, and because they are shipped separately, pre. The true story of the dday spies kindle edition by. It takes you from the decision to go in early june through the liberation of paris on august 25th, almost three months later. If youre new to the subject, probably the best book to start with is dday. It involved the use of a team of double agents feeding misinformation to their german contacts over a period of years. All books are picked, packed and dispatched from the united kingdom. Double cross agents, such as the spaniard juan pujol code named garbo, played an important role in convincing the german. 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. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read double cross. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation. The western allies of world war ii launched the largest amphibious invasion in history when.
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In addition to the many general accounts of espionage and intelligence operations in the second world war and innumerable books on d day that discuss operation fortitude, double cross joins other specific studies of the operation, 8 as well as biographies, 9 autobiographies, and memoirs 10 of many of the main players. Double cross tells how doubleagents fed this misinformation to the germans and gave the dday landings a chance. D day was a stunning military accomplishment, but it was. Usa today s bob minzesheimer recommends 10 of his favorites, listed in order of publication.
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