Double cross : the true story of the D-day spies / Ben Macintyre.
2012
D810.S8 M237 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
Double cross : the true story of the D-day spies / Ben Macintyre.
Author
Macintyre, Ben, 1963-
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780307888754 (hardcover)
0307888754 (hardcover)
9780307888761 (electronic book)
0307888762 (electronic book)
9780307888778
0307888770
0307888754 (hardcover)
9780307888761 (electronic book)
0307888762 (electronic book)
9780307888778
0307888770
Imprint
New York : Crown, ©2012.
Language
English
Description
399 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Call Number
D810.S8 M237 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
940.54/21421
Summary
"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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-386) and index.
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Table of Contents
Raw recruits
A bit of an enigma
Roman and the cat
Coat trailing
The club
Garbo takes the stage
Popov goes shopping
The great game
The flock
True agent, false agent, double agent
Cockade
Discovered treasure
The walk-in
A time for fortitude
Enriching the chicken feed
Artist paints a picture
Monty's double
The double dash
Jebsen's new friend
"Am I not always careful?"
Operation Dora
Guest of the Gestapo
Bronx gets toothache
Garbo's warning
Second innings.
A bit of an enigma
Roman and the cat
Coat trailing
The club
Garbo takes the stage
Popov goes shopping
The great game
The flock
True agent, false agent, double agent
Cockade
Discovered treasure
The walk-in
A time for fortitude
Enriching the chicken feed
Artist paints a picture
Monty's double
The double dash
Jebsen's new friend
"Am I not always careful?"
Operation Dora
Guest of the Gestapo
Bronx gets toothache
Garbo's warning
Second innings.