| ISBN |
9781408819906 (hbk.) |
| Name |
MacIntyre, Ben, 1963- |
| Title |
Double cross : the true story of the D-Day spies / Ben Macintyre. |
| Published |
London : Bloomsbury, 2012 |
| Description |
417 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography: p. [401]-404. |
| Contents |
1. Raw Recruits -- 2. A Bit of an Enigma -- 3. Roman and the Cat -- 4. Coat Trailing -- 5. The Club -- 6. Garbo Takes the Stage -- 7. Popov Goes Shopping -- 8. The Great Game -- 9. The Flock -- 10. True Agent, False Agent, Double Agent -- 11. Cockade -- 12. Discovered Treasure -- 13. The Walk-in -- 14. A Time for Fortitude -- 15. Enriching the Chicken-feed -- 16. Artist Paints a Picture -- 17. Monty's Double -- 18. The Double Dash -- 19. Jebsen's New Friend -- 20. 'Am I Not Always Careful?' -- 21. Operation Dora -- 22. Guest of the Gestapo -- 23. Bronx Gets Toothache -- 24. Garbo's Warning -- 25. Second Innings. |
| Summary |
D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of deceit, aimed at convincing the Nazis that Calais and Norway, not Normandy, were the targets of the 150,000-strong invasion force. The deception involved every branch of Allied wartime intelligence - but at its heart was the 'Double Cross System', a team of double agents controlled by the secret Twenty Committee. These double agents were, variously, brave, treacherous, fickle, greedy, and inspired. They were not conventional warriors, but their masterpiece of deceit, never before fully revealed, saved countless lives. Their codenames were Bronx, Brutus, Treasure, Tricycle and Garbo. This is their story. |
| Subjects |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence |
| Espionage -- Europe -- History -- 20th century |
| Spies -- Europe -- Biography |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy |
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