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A revealing study of espionage operations during World War II looks at how the British secret service utilized the service of captured German spies to provide false information to the Nazis, General Wavell's efforts to hide British weakness in North Africa, and the massive campaign of Allied deception to conceal information regarding the D-Day landings. 10,000 first printing.
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In the war against Hitler, the Allies had to use every ounce of cunning and trickery that they possessed, and combining military deceptions with the double-agent network run by the intelligence services, they were able to send the enemy inaccurate and misleading information about Allied troops, plans and operations. From moving imaginary armies around the desert to putting a corpse with fake papers floating in the Mediterranean, and from faking successful bombing campaigns to the convoluted deceptions which kept part of the German forces away from Normandy prior to D-Day, Terry Crowdy explores the deception war that combined the double-agent network with ingenious plans to confuse and hoodwink the Führer.
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