Double Cross: The True Story of The D-Day Spies

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This includes the series Max Einstein, which was produced in part thanks to the estate of Albert Einstein. My second book by Ben Macintyre, and almost as good as the first ( A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal).

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He did not admit that he had visited Britain only once in his life and had met the duke for a matter of minutes at Dubrovnik’s Argosy Yacht Club. Jebsen’s recruiter was a family friend, Colonel Hans Oster, deputy to Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, the chief of the Abwehr. The cliché about spying is that it is like a fairground hall of mirrors, but reading Double Cross, such an attraction does not really seem worth spending good money to visit. Nonetheless, fans of non-fiction espionage should find some wheat amongst the chaff in this revelation of the part spies and deception played in the successful allied invasion of Normandy (otherwise known as D-Day). Sometimes this was done in letting agents give the Germans actual operational details, but timed in such a way that they would arrive too late to be of any use.

Jebsen wore the same expression of “sharp intelligence, cynicism and dark humour,” but he also seemed tense, as if there was something weighing on his mind. Very rapidly they were all imprisoned or executed having achieved nothing, all their training rendered completely irrelevant. Excellent writing by Macintyre, but not as quite as good as *A Spy Among Friends* or *The Spy and the Traitor* — perhaps a bit too spread out in scope. Later, the murderer goes to a play and kills Matthew Jay Walker, an actor, and posts videos of his murders on the internet. Unlike some of Macintyre's earlier books, this one is cursed by its lack of focus, the well-known nature of much of the material and the sprawling cast, but he does everything he can to make it all entertaining.

Double Crossed: A Code of Honour, A Complete Betrayal Double Crossed: A Code of Honour, A Complete Betrayal

The least entertaining and successful of Macintyre's WWII spy books IMO, probably because the cast of characters was too numerous and nothing interesting really happened until the final 100 pages. com that encourages parents and more to help ignite an excitement in the new generation for reading.To make the Germans aim short, the British used these double agents to exaggerate the number of V-1s falling in the north and west of London and to underreport those falling in the south and east. This book is more than the story of Operation Fortitude, the Allies attempt to convince the Germans that the invasion of France was going to be somewhere other than Normandy. Macintyre does an excellent job to discussing the weaknesses and frankly the gullibility in the German agents controlling their British Spy ring.