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''Addictive and deeply moving'' Independent
''Utterly gripping'' Anthony Beevor, Daily Telegraph
''Enthralling . . . A reminder that heroism can be found in the most unlikely places'' Evening Standard
''I have seldom enjoyed a spy story more than this one'' Max Hastings, Sunday Times
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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 . . .

At the heart of the deception was the ''Double Cross System'', a team of double agents whose bravery, treachery, greed and inspiration succeeded in convincing the Nazis that Calais and Norway, not Normandy, were the targets of the 150,000-strong Allied invasion force. Under the direction of an eccentric but brilliant intelligence officer in tartan trousers, working from a smoky lair in St James''s, these spies would weave a web of dec

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      Publisher Bloomsbury
      Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Published 8/15/2024
      ISBN-13 9781526682659
      978-1526682659
      ISBN-10 1526682656
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      Military History

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''Addictive and deeply moving'' Independent
      ''Utterly gripping'' Anthony Beevor, Daily Telegraph
      ''Enthralling . . . A reminder that heroism can be found in the most unlikely places'' Evening Standard
      ''I have seldom enjoyed a spy story more than this one'' Max Hastings, Sunday Times
      _____________________
      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 . . .

      At the heart of the deception was the ''Double Cross System'', a team of double agents whose bravery, treachery, greed and inspiration succeeded in convincing the Nazis that Calais and Norway, not Normandy, were the targets of the 150,000-strong Allied invasion force. Under the direction of an eccentric but brilliant intelligence officer in tartan trousers, working from a smoky lair in St James''s, these spies would weave a web of dec

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