
The Spies Who Never Were : The True Story of the Nazi Spies Who Were Actually Allied Double Agents.
Title:
The Spies Who Never Were : The True Story of the Nazi Spies Who Were Actually Allied Double Agents.
Author:
Haufler, Hervie.
ISBN:
9781497622623
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (344 pages)
Contents:
Intro -- DEDICATION -- CHAPTER ONE: The Most Delicious Irony -- CHAPTER TWO: Masterminds of the Double Cross -- CHAPTER THREE: Ultra, The Double Agents' Indispensable Ally -- CHAPTER FOUR: In the Beginning, Snow -- CHAPTER FIVE: Tricycle, The Abwehr's Yugoslav Socialite -- CHAPTER SIX: Tate, Convert from Nazism -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Zigzag, The Most Daring -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Code Name Brutus -- CHAPTER NINE: Treasure, First Violin in the Deception Orchestra -- CHAPTER TEN: Garbo, The Greatest -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Mutt, Jeff and Other Lesser Agents -- CHAPTER TWELVE: Tricycle's American Misadventure -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Trickery in the Middle East -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: For Operation Torch, Strategic Deceptions -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Anywhere But Sicily -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Prelude to Fortitude -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Double Cross in Jeopardy -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: The "Grand Strategic Deception -- CHAPTER NINETEEN: Deceptions Beyond D-Day -- CHAPTER TWENTY: The Final Reckoning -- APPENDIX: Cast of Principal Characters -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Abstract:
After the fall of France in the mid-1940s, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler faced a British Empire that refused to negotiate for peace. Full-scale war loomed and Hitler ordered the Abwehr, Germany's defense and intelligence organization, to carry out Operation Lena, a program to place information-gathering spies within Britain. Quickly, a network of secret agents spread within the United Kingdom and across the British Empire. A master of disguises, a professional safecracker, a scrubwoman, a diplomat's daughter-they all reported news of the Allied defenses and strategies back to their German spymasters. One Yugoslav playboy codenamed "Tricycle" infiltrated the highest echelon of British society and is said to have been Ian Fleming's model for James Bond. The true irony, though, is that every last one of these German spies had been captured and "turned" by the British. As double agents, they sent a canny mix of truth and misinformation back to Hitler, all carefully controlled by the Allies. As one British report put it: "By means of the double agent system, we actually ran and controlled the German espionage system in this country." In The Spies Who Never Were, World War II veteran cryptographer Hervie Haufler brings you the true story of these double agents and their deceptions. This richly woven, fascinating account lays out both the worldwide machinations and the personal clashes that went into "the greatest deception in the history of warfare.".
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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