TY  - BOOK
AB  - "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. 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."--Publisher description.
AU  - Macintyre, Ben,
CN  - D810.S8
CN  - D810.S8
CY  - New York :
DA  - ©2012.
ET  - 1st ed.
ID  - 770916
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Deception (Military science)
KW  - Espionage
KW  - Spies
N2  - "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. 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."--Publisher description.
PB  - Crown,
PP  - New York :
PY  - ©2012.
SN  - 9780307888754
SN  - 0307888754
SN  - 9780307888778
SN  - 0307888770
T1  - Double cross :the true story of the D-day spies /
TI  - Double cross :the true story of the D-day spies /
ER  -