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Double Cross: The True Story Of The D-Day Spies (2012)

by Ben Macintyre(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0307888754 (ISBN13: 9780307888754)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Crown

review 1: This is a detailed account of how the allies (well, the British, mainly) fooled the Germans into thinking that the D Day invasion would happen somewhere other than on the Normandy coast. The plan was ingenious and mind-bogglingly complicated, at least for those of us not used to thinking in terms of crossing, double-crossing, triple-crossing, etc. It is at times difficult to keep the various characters straight since there are many and they have several names each, but Macintyre does an admirable job of keeping it as clear as possible. As with his other books, this is a compelling account of an amazing act of deception, told with enough detail to be informative but not so much as to bog down the story. Well worth reading!
review 2: Recommended it if you're inte... morerested in history or psychology. The success of the D-Day invasion was due to "Operation Fortitude," a wide-reaching fictional campaign that convinced Hitler the invasion would be at Calais, rather than at the western Normandy beaches. And Operation Fortitude was successful because of these five double agents, who disseminated misleading information to their German handlers. The life stories of the five are so odd that they seem fiction themselves: a Polish patriot, a Serbian playboy, a Peruvian partygirl, a Frenchwoman obsessed with her dog, and a Spanish chicken farmer. It's amazing that the future of the free world depended on these five peculiar, vulnerable, unreliable individuals. less

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