Double cross
by Ben Macintyre · first published 2012
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On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. 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. The story of D-Day has been told from the point of view of the soldiers who fought in it, the tacticians who planned it, and
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…motivations of the people who were interested in spying on them and used those motivations to their advantage. There are many books on the subject, my favorite of which is [0]. [0] https://www.amazon.com/Double-Cross-Story-D-Day-Spies/dp/030...
on “Historians Find Another Spy in the U.S. Atomic Bomb Project” ↗Writer Ben Macintyre has written extensively, and lucidly, about deception campaigns of WWI. Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat, and Double Cross all capture the efforts made by the British and its allies. No individual operation swung it but there was an amalgamation of disinformation on various fronts. It’s hard to put a tangible outcome, other…
on “Operation Dissimulation: WW2'S Biggest Deception Campaigns” ↗…recently and went through: The Second World Way by Anthony Beevor (it's a tough but very interesting listen) SAS: Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre (very enjoyable, assume slightly exaggerated) as well as Double Cross All great books.
on “Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?” ↗