Double Cross - Hardcover

Macintyre, Ben (1963-)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1408819902 ISBN 13: 9781408819906

Publisher: London: Bloomsbury, 2012

Synopsis

An important factor in the ultimate success of D-Day was the grand deception that the Allies would attack the Pas-de-Calais and not Normandy. A small group of foreign spies that had been turned to the Allied cause were a critical part of this hoax, feeding misinformation to the German High Command. Ben Macintyre describes the exploits of this colourful cadre of spies whose activities remained classified until the 1950s.

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Review

Amazon Best Books of the Month, August 2012: What do a Polish pilot, a Peruvian party girl, and a Spanish chicken maven have in common? They were all central to the success of Operation Fortitude, the audacious ruse that kept Hitler guessing over the location of the D-Day invasions, saving the lives of countless Allied soldiers and turning the war in their favor. In the same enthralling and entertaining fashion of his previous World War II spy stories (Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat), Ben Macintyre's Double Cross goes behind the standard narratives of armies, generals, and tactics to chronicle the unlikely--and occasionally outlandish--stories of the spooks, spymasters, and double agents that changed the course of the war. --Jon Foro

About the Author

Ben Macintyre is a columnist and Associate Editor on The Times. He has worked as the newspaper's correspondent in New York, Paris and Washington. He is the author of eight previous books including Agent Zigzag, shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Galaxy British Book Award for Biography of the Year 2008, and the no. 1 bestseller Operation Mincemeat. He lives in London with his wife and three children.

Edition details

• Publisher: London: Bloomsbury
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1408819902
• ISBN 13: 9781408819906
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432