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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING COLIN FIRTH The brilliant and almost absurdly entertaining (Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker) true story of the most successfuland certainly the strangestdeception carried out in World War II, from the acclaimed author of The Spy and the Traitor
Pure catnip to fans of World War II thrillers and a lot of fun for everyone Kanon, The Washington Post Book World
Near the end of World War II, two British naval officers came up with a brilliant and slightly mad scheme to mislead the Nazi armies about where the Allies would attack southern Europe. To carry out the plan, they would have to rely on the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man.
Ben Macintyres dazzling, critically acclaimed bestseller chronicles the extraordinary story of what happened after British officials planted this dead bodyoutfitted in a British military uniform with a briefcase containing false intelligence documentsin Nazi territory, and how this secret mission fooled Hitler into changing military positioning, paving the way for the Allies drive to victory.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES
Author: Ben MacIntyre
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 04/05/2011
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 7.95h x 5.23w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9780307453280
Language: English
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