Buy this book on-line MacINTYRE**, BEN: : DOUBLE CROSS: The True Story of the D-Day Spies.**LONDON.BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC,2012. ISBN 9781408819906.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE+.Bright, crisp,clean,b/w+colour photographic montage'd illustrated upper panel of dw/dj with red gilt+black ink lettering,rear panel critics' reviews for previous author title; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - virtually as new.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine.Bright,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,blocked fluorescent red ink letters to spine/backstrip,red+black striped headband,and immaculate red endpapers illustrated with the number twenty in Roman numerals,which forms a double cross,across the middle of them.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2-417pp [paginated] includes preface,25 chapters+ Aftermath,32pp contemporary b/w photographs in 2 blocks of 16pp apiece,between pp114/5 and pp290/1 respectively,notes,a select bibliography,acknowledgements and an index.Plus [unpaginated],half-title+title pages,a dedication,prose extracts (quotes from Churchill+Sun Tzu),contents list/table,a b/w D-Day map,list of agents+their handlers and a note about author to rear,on reverse of last page.
D-Day,6 June 1944,the turning point of WW2,was a victory of arms.But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of deceit, aimed at convincing the Nazis that Calais and Norway,not Normandy,were the targets of the 150,000-strong invasion force.
The deception involved every branch of Allied wartime intelligence - the Bletchley Park code-breakers,MI5,MI6,SOE,Scientific Intelligence, the FBI and the 'Double Cross System',a team of double agents controlled by the secret Twenty Committee,so named because twenty in Roman numerals forms a double cross.
The key D-Day spies were just five in number, and one of the oddest military units ever assembled: a bisexual Peruvian playgirl,a tiny Polish fighter pilot,a Serbian seducer,a wildly imaginative Spaniard with a diploma in chicken farming,and a hysterical Frenchwoman whose obsessive love of her pet dog very nearly wrecked the entire deception.Their enterprise was saved from catastrophe by a shadowy sixth spy whose heroic sacrifice is here revealed for the first time.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 deception so intricate that it ensnared Hitler's army and helped to carry thousands of troops across the Channel in safety.
These double agents were,variously,brave,
treacherous,fickle,greedy and inspired.They were not conventional warriors,but their masterpiece of deceit saved countless lives.
Their codenames were Bronx,Brutus,Treasure, Tricycle and Garbo.This is their story.
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D-Day,6 June 1944,the turning point of WW2,was a victory of arms.
But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of deceit,aimed at convincing the Nazis that Calais and Norway,not Normandy, were the targets of the 150,000-strong invasion force.
The deception involved every branch of Allied wartime intelligence - the Bletchley Park code-breakers,MI5,MI6,SOE,Scientific Intelligence,the FBI and the 'Double Cross System',a team of double agents controlled by the secret Twenty Committee,so named because twenty in Roman numerals forms a double cross.
The key D-Day spies were just five in number, and one of the oddest military units ever assembled: a bisexual Peruvian playgirl,a tiny Polish fighter pilot,a Serbian seducer,a wildly imaginative Spaniard with a diploma in chicken farming,and a hysterical Frenchwoman whose obsessive love of her pet dog very nearly wrecked the entire deception.Their enterprise was saved from catastrophe by a shadowy sixth spy whose heroic sacrifice is here revealed for the first time.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 deception so intricate that it ensnared Hitler's army and helped to carry thousands of troops across the Channel in safety.
These double agents were,variously,brave, treacherous,fickle,greedy and inspired.They were not conventional warriors,but their masterpiece of deceit saved countless lives.Their codenames were Bronx,Brutus,Treasure,Tricycle and Garbo. This is their story.
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE+.Bright, crisp,clean,b/w+colour photographic montage'd illustrated upper panel of dw/dj with red gilt+ black ink lettering,rear panel critics' reviews for previous author title; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - virtually as new. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine.Publisher's bright, clean,sharp-cornered,original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked fluorescent red ink letters to spine/backstrip,red+black striped headband,and immaculate red endpapers illustrated with the number twenty in Roman numerals,which forms a double cross,across the middle them.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2-417pp [paginated] includes preface, 25 chapters+ Aftermath,32pp contemporary b/w photographs in 2 blocks of 16pp apiece,between pp114/5 and pp290/1 respectively,notes,a select bibliography,acknowledgements and an index.Plus [unpaginated],half-title+title pages,a dedication,prose extracts (quotes from Churchill+Sun Tzu),contents list/table,a b/w D-Day map,list of agents+their handlers and a note about author to rear,on verso of last page.
D-Day,6 June 1944,the turning point of WW2,was a victory of arms.But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of deceit, aimed at convincing the Nazis that Calais and Norway,not Normandy,were the targets of the 150,000-strong invasion force.
The deception involved every branch of Allied wartime intelligence - the Bletchley Park code- breakers,MI5,MI6,SOE,Scientific Intelligence, the FBI and the 'Double Cross System',a team of double agents controlled by the secret Twenty Committee,so named because twenty in Roman numerals forms a double cross.
The key D-Day spies were just five in number, and one of the oddest military units ever assembled: a bisexual Peruvian playgirl,a tiny Polish fighter pilot,a Serbian seducer,a wildly imaginative Spaniard with a diploma in chicken farming,and a hysterical Frenchwoman whose obsessive love of her pet dog very nearly wrecked the entire deception.Their enterprise was saved from catastrophe by a shadowy sixth spy whose heroic sacrifice is here revealed for the first time.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 deception so intricate that it ensnared Hitler's army and helped to carry thousands of troops across the Channel in safety.
These double agents were,variously,brave, treacherous,fickle,greedy and inspired. They were not conventional warriors,but their masterpiece of deceit saved countless lives. Their codenames were Bronx,Brutus,Treasure, Tricycle and Garbo.This is their story.
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