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Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler And Saved D-Day (2012)

by Stephan Talty(Favorite Author)

3.92 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0547614810 (ISBN13: 9780547614816)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

review 1: This is EXCELLENT. It’s the true story of Juan Pujol, a completely ordinary Spanish man who decides, during World War II, that the Nazis are absolutely awful and that he wants to help the Allies defeat them. He has nothing to offer them at first, so the British turn him down. He decides to insinuate himself into the Nazis’ good graces by presenting himself as a rabid supporter who would love to spy for them, utterly inventing his “information” on the Allies. It works. The Nazis trust Pujol and begin giving him real information and increasingly important assignments, while he keeps faking knowledge and fabricating a network of subagents out of thin air—and the British proceed to reject his services three more times before finally taking him on as a double agent. I... moret’s a fascinating read, all the more so because it’s completely true.
review 2: Stephan Talty has written a work of non-fiction dealing with the allied strategy of misinformation as it relates to the onset of D Day. The book reads like a novel as the author follows the life of Juan Pujol as he transformed himself into one of, or possibly the most important spy the allies developed during World War II. Even though the reader is fully aware of the outcome of wartime events, the author keeps you on the edge of your seat as operations are planned and executed. If you want a wonderful biography written in the context of the nether world of espionage during World War II, this book will be very satisfying. less

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