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Title	:	Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
Author	:	Ben Macintyre
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 399 pages
Published	:	July 31st 2012 by Broadway Books (first published March 27th 2012)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. War. World War II. Spy Thriller. Espionage

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In his celebrated bestsellers Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, Ben Macintyre told the dazzling true stories of a remarkable WWII double agent and of how the Allies employed a corpse to fool the Nazis and assure a decisive victory.  In Double Cross, Macintyre returns with the untold story of the grand final deception of the war and of the extraordinary spies who achieved it.

   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, deceived the Nazis into believing that the Allies would attack at Calais and Norway rather than Normandy. It was the most sophisticated and successful deception operation ever carried out, ensuring that Hitler kept an entire army awaiting a fake invasion, saving thousands of lives, and securing an Allied victory at the most critical juncture in the war.

   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 the generals who led it. But this epic event in world history has never before been told from the perspectives of the key individuals in the Double Cross System. These include its director (a brilliant, urbane intelligence officer), a colorful assortment of MI5 handlers (as well as their counterparts in Nazi intelligence), and the five spies who formed Double Cross’s nucleus: a dashing  Serbian playboy, a Polish fighter-pilot, a bisexual Peruvian party girl, a deeply eccentric Spaniard with a diploma in chicken farming and a volatile Frenchwoman, whose obsessive love for her pet dog very nearly wrecked the entire plan. The D-Day spies were, without question, one of the oddest military units ever assembled, and their success depended on the delicate, dubious relationship between spy and spymaster, both German and British. Their enterprise was saved from catastrophe by a shadowy sixth spy whose heroic sacrifice is revealed here for the first time.

   With the same depth of research, eye for the absurd and masterful storytelling that have made Ben Macintyre an international bestseller,  Double Cross is a captivating narrative of the spies who wove a web so intricate it ensnared Hitler’s army and carried thousands of D-Day troops across the Channel in safety.

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Original Title:	Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
ISBN:	0307990443 (ISBN13: 9780307990440)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Agatha Award Nominee for Best Nonfiction (2012), Edgar Award Nominee for Best Fact Crime (2013), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for History & Biography (2012)

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This is an astonishingly good, absolutely riveting account of a disparate group of individuals whose exploits during WW2 went largely unsung. It was provided to me by netgalley and is well written with humor, empathy and clarity. It brings in accounts of other operations and the bigger picture to provide context, but never moves away from the double agents themselves.I honestly had no idea that such an infuriating, temperamental, intelligent and diverse a group of people played such an important

A great story about the misinformation fed to German intelligence by a group of spies and double agents working for MI5 during WW2 culminating in a successful D-Day landing at Normandy.

After visiting the International Spy Museum in D.C., I was super interested in learning more about real-life spies, and my friend recommended Ben Macintyre's Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies. Which relates how British double agents ensured the success of D-Day by fooling the Germans into believing that the Normandy invasion would actually be occurring in several other locations.This. Story. Is. Fucking. Unreal.Two things become very clear after listening to this book. One, the

This book is certainly about history and espionage; but it is also certainly about management--both project and personnel. Macintyre goes off onto tangents--for example the British attempts to sabotage the German carrier pigeon network--but that only adds panache to this bizarre and quirky narrative on the campaign to deceive the Axis into dispersing their military units to places the Allies were NOT conducting amphibious landings. Someone really should write a screenplay, because there is no

Any book which features such unlikely heroes as a transvestite British colonel and counterfeit homing pigeons is going to keep my interest, and this witty history of MI-5's wartime counterespionage program does just that. Run out of "Section Twenty" which was the only section of the service to use Roman numerals (XX equals Double Cross), the British fed the Germans a stream of fake intelligence to achieve strategic and tactical results.The real heroes are the spies themselves. In fact long

World War 2 espionage fascinates Ben Macintyre. A British writer who has discovered oddball characters and double-agents that are not so much out of Hitchcock but Mel Brooks. In his newest work, Macintyre details the not-entirely believable story of a motley group of spies who deceived the Germans into believing that the D-Day invasion in 1944 would take place in Pas de Calais and not Normandy. The spies included a bisexual Peruvian playgirl, an eccentric Spaniard with a degree in chicken

Im so glad I listened to this audiobook. Ive had several of Mr. Macintyres books on my to-read list for a while, and this one didnt disappoint! Ive read multiple books on British WWII intelligence and D-day deception schemes (my first novel was about D-day deceptions schemes, so I did a fair amount of research), but I still learned something new. This book will now be my go-to recommendation for readers wanting a nonfiction account of D-day spies. Great bit of history told with skilled writing.