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ISBN 10: 0060105518 

ISBN 13: 9780060105518

Author: Anthony Cave Brown

In this classic, definitive history, the author provides a pitch-perfect account of the biggest and most complicated intelligence operation in the history of war.
On June 6, 1944—D-day—six thousand Allied ships, the largest fleet in history, arrived off the French coast to begin the liberation of Europe. To their enormous relief, the Allies had obtained complete tactical surprise; the Nazi eagle slept. D-day, which could have been one of history’s bloodiest disasters, became instead one of its greatest victories.
How this astonishing surprise was achieved is the subject of Bodyguard of Lies , one of the most exciting volumes ever written about the Second World War. Anthony Cave Brown presents a large and fascinating cast of heroes and rogues and sweeps through dozens of dramatic stories of plot and counterplot, stealth and treachery, lies and deceits. We learn the full story behind Churchill’s agonizing decision not to warn the city of Coventry that it was about to be destroyed, the deadly cat-and-mouse games between Allied agents in France and the Gestapo, the near fiasco of Montgomery’s “double,” who could not be kept sober, and the heroic but doomed efforts of the anti-Hitler German underground to eliminate the Fuehrer—including the role of the chief of the German intelligence service in passing secrets over to the British. These and many more explosive stories of code-breakers and deceivers, of plots and ruses at the highest and lowest levels, make up the tapestry of this monumental book.

Table of contents:

Part 1: The origins of special means 1938–1942
Ultra
Conventry
Special means operational

Part 2: The roots of conspiracy 1934–1943
Canaris
The schwarze Kapelle
Friend or foe
The plot begins
The outbreak of war
Conspiracy at the Vatican
The Venlo incident
“Adroit intrigue”
Canaris at work
The assassination of Heydrich
Operation flash

Part 3: High strategy and low tactics 1943
Casablanca
The battle of the Atlantic
The LCS and plan Jael
Mincemeat
Quebec
The Schwarze Kappelle, 1943
Starkey
Prosper
The intelligence attack
Teheran
Cicero

Part 4: Cover and deception — January to June 1944
Eisenhower, supreme commander
The German supreme command
Bodyguard
The Balkans
Fortitude north
Fortitude south
Nuremberg
Aerial stratagems
Security
The wireless game
The French labyrinth
Canaris’s last throw
Vendetta
The eve of D-day

Part 5: Normandy to nemesis — June 6 to August 20, 1944
D-day
The deceptions of D-day
Sword and stratagem
The French revolt
Rommel
The V1
Goodwood
July 20, 1944
The breakout
Gotterdammerung

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