Double Cross by Ben MacIntyre

 

 

I thoroughly enjoyed Ben MacIntyre's book Double Cross about the British effort to mislead the Germans about the location of the D-Day landing.  The British acquired a misfit band of people to mislead the Germans about the allies. 

 

The book covers the largely unsuccessful but enthusiastically pursued carrier pigeon war.  I was struck by the bravery, the pettiness and the creativity of the people in the double cross project.  Recruited British spies were created out of thin air and used to gather fictitious reports about people that were not there.

 

There was even an elaborately planned rouse to convince the Germans that General Montgomery was in Africa when he was in fact in England.  

 

 

 

Richard and Judy talk to Ben MacIntyre about Double Cross

The book, Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies is available from Amazon.com.