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The book chronicles the Double Cross System, the clandestine operation that rewired German espionage into a United Kingdom advantage during the critical 1944 invasion of Normandy. It exposes how MI5 handlers and five key double agents lured the Nazis into believing an attack would take place at Calais and Norway, while the Allies sealed the success of D‑Day with minimal casualties. The narrative provides new insight into the unpaid bravery of a sixth spy, whose sacrifice is revealed for the first time, and offers a compelling portrait of espionage, strategy, and deception that kept 150,000 Allied troops safe across the Channel.
First publish date: 2012
Genre: History/Military History
Authors: Ben Macintyre
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From the Preface...
Experience proved that intelligence functions best when limited to its proper tasks: the collection, collation, evaluation, and distribution of information concerning the enemy. Although. for best efficiency, those who work in intelligence must cooperate closely with those who use it, they must never attempt to usurp the functions of either those who make plans or those who direct operations.
As this book demonstrates, secrecy is often essential to security and continuing production of intelligence, but it is a double-edged weapon that must be wielded carefully lest it would the wielder ,ore deeply that the enemy. Restricting intelligence to "those who need to know" sometimes requires both omniscience and omnipotence.
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