Agent Zigzag: One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in
a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war
effort. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5's
Agent Zigzag. Dashing and louche, courageous and unpredictable, inside
the traitor was a hero, inside the villain, a man of conscience: the
problem for Chapman, his many lovers and his spymasters, was knowing
where one ended and the other began. Ben Macintyre weaves together
diaries, letters, photographs, memories and top-secret MI5 files to
create the exhilarating account of Britain's most sensational double
agent. Operation Mincemeat: One overcast April morning in 1943, a
fisherman notices a corpse floating in the sea off the coast of Spain.
When the body is brought ashore, he is identified as a British
soldier, Major William Martin of the Royal Marines. A leather attaché
case, secured to his belt, reveals an intelligence goldmine:
top-secret documents Allied invasion plans. But Major William Martin
never existed. The body is that of a dead Welsh tramp and every single
document is fake. Operation Mincemeat is the incredible true story of
the most extraordinary deception ever planned by Churchill's spies -
an outrageous lie that travelled from a Whitehall basement, all the
way to Hitler's desk. Double Cross: D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning
point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also
a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of deceit... At the
heart of the deception was the 'Double Cross System', a team of double
agents whose bravery, treachery, greed and inspiration succeeded in
convincing the Nazis that Calais and Norway, not Normandy, were the
targets of the 150,000-strong Allied invasion force. These were not
conventional warriors, but their masterpiece of deceit saved thousands
of lives. Their codenames were Bronx, Brutus, Treasure, Tricycle and
Garbo. This is their story.
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Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat & Double Cross
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781408838389
Publisert
2015
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Bloomsbury Paperbacks
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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