InDouble Cross, Macintyre returns with the untold story of the grand final deception of the war and of the extraordinary spies who achieved 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.
With his latest book, Double Cross, Ben Macintyre tells the astonishing true story of a bizarre group of misfit spies who played a critical role in the success of D-Day. The stories in this book, many of which have never before been told, are nothing short of incredible. Skillfully woven together, they form one of the most gripping narratives I have ever read. Candice Millard, author of The River of Doubt and Destiny of the Republic. Ben Macintyre and I work in the same period, and I should be reading him because he is such a scrupulous and insightful writer – a master historian.
Ben Macintyre tells the story of five extraordinary spies at the center of a ruse to fool . The True Story of the D-Day Spies. 399 pp. Crown Publishers.
Ben Macintyre tells the story of five extraordinary spies at the center of a ruse to fool the Germans about D-Day. His first book, Forgotten Fatherland, excavated the story of Nietzsche’s sister and her founding of Nueva Germania, a racially pure colony of vegetarian anti-Semites in Paraguay. Macintyre then went on to Adam Worth, the master thief who inspired Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation of the Holmesian supervillain Professor Moriarty.
Ben Macintyre's new book attempts to make the case for the importance of the British response to these German . The futility of all this is, in Macintyre's view, exonerated by the role of the double agents in the approach to D-Day.
Ben Macintyre's new book attempts to make the case for the importance of the British response to these German agents – the realisation that some of them could be "turned" to feed back to their Abwehr handlers misleading "secrets", which would spread chaos across the Reich. Run by a small, fiercely dedicated band in St James's (including Anthony Blunt, who passed everything on to Stalin), this became an ever more elaborate operation.
Master storyteller Ben Macintyre’s most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century’s greatest spy story
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies. Macintyre describes his 1991 journey to the Paraguayan site where Elisabeth Nietzsche and her husband founded a utopian Aryan colony in 1886. Master storyteller Ben Macintyre’s most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century’s greatest spy story. Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain’s counterintelligence against.
The story of D-Day has been told from many points of view, but never before from the perspectives of the .
The story of D-Day has been told from many points of view, but never before from the perspectives of the key individuals in the Double Cross system. 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. -Publisher description.
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Together with his double-agent colleagues, some of whose stories Ben Macintyre weaves into the latest of his enjoyable and . It was designed to deceive the Germans about every aspect of the preparations for D-Day.
Together with his double-agent colleagues, some of whose stories Ben Macintyre weaves into the latest of his enjoyable and engrossing books about wartime subterfuge and deception, Garbo fashioned a "limitless, multi-character, ever-expanding novel". From 1942, every "German" source in Britain worked for the Allies, with the bizarre multi-national band of Double Cross agents under the management of the XX Committee and its dry, cricket-fanatic chief John Masterman.
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