Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies, (Paperback)

from bostonian71

Entertaining though digressive follow-up to Macintyre's "Operation Mincemeat," a wickedly ingenious deception that helped mislead the Nazis during World War II. "Double Cross" ostensibly focuses on the five people who were feeding the Germans intelligence about Allied operations, and thus were in...

from MaggieFlo

This is an extremely well researched historical story about the preparation for the invasion of Europe through France near the end of World war 2. In order to have the Germans believe that the invasion would take place near Calais rather than Normandy, a very elaborate scheme was set in motion to...

from KurtWombat

Contemplating the stirs and eddies of history, it's easy to assume inevitable the currents that carried events one way or another. That Hitler's reach exceeded his grasp seems obvious now but had he been afforded a little more time, advancements in his nuclear program and the implementation of hi...

from michigantrumpet

Feeling at a remove from the world of WWII-era black-and-white photos, kids these days might complacently feel the results of that vast conflict were a foregone conclusion. In truth, the Allied victory was not certain. Those same kids (if their forebears were not annihilated) came very close to s...

from jamespurcell

An unlikely gaggle of opportunists, turn double agent, participate in the an elaborate scheme to disguise the D Day landings. Well paid by the Germans and disdained by their "Oh So British" elitist handlers in MI 5 & 6; they sustain to the end and are quite successful. Well researched and told, t...