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Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies. On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. A stunning military accomplishment, it was also a masterpiece of trickery. Operation Fortitude, which protected and enabled the invasion, and the Double Cross system ...
5 de abr. de 2012 · After the Second World War, a Catalan former chicken-farmer named Juan Pujol retired to Venezuela, where he taught Spanish to Shell staff and ran a bookshop. This literary destiny seems more than apt.
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, tricked the Nazis into believing that the Allies would attack at Calais and Norway rather than Normandy.
14 de may. de 2013 · Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies. Paperback – May 14, 2013. On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. A stunning military achievement, it was also a masterpiece of trickery.
Some of the key people involved in FORTITUDE were an odd mix, or as Ben Macintyre describes them so well in Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies: “…a bisexual Peruvian playgirl, a tiny Polish fighter pilot, a mercurial Frenchwoman, a Serbian seducer, and a deeply eccentric Spaniard with a diploma in chicken farming.” (p.
Ben Macintyre. Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies. New York: Crown Publishers, 2012. In the mid-1940’s, the Germans knew that an Allied invasion of continental Europe was forthcoming. Had they known the target area for what was to be called D-Day, they would have been well-equipped and fortified to crush the Allied forces.
29 de abr. de 2012 · Double Cross: the True Story of D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre 432PP, Bloomsbury t £14.99 (PLUS £1.25 p&p) Buy now from Telegraph Books (rrp £16.99, ebook £14.58)
