Daunt Books

An immensely entertaining and often very moving account of the Double Cross System; a core team of five double agents who successfully convinced the Nazis that Calais and Norway, not Normandy, were the targets of the 150,000-strong invasion force. It was one of the oddest military units ever assembled: a bisexual Peruvian playgirl, a tiny Polish fighter pilot, a Serbian seducer, a wildly imaginative Spaniard with a diploma in chicken farming, and a hysterical Frenchwoman whose obsessive love for her pet dog very nearly wrecked the entire deception. Their enterprise was saved from catastrophe by a shadowy sixth spy whose heroic sacrifice is here revealed for the first time.

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