![]() ![]() Together with their MI5 controllers, this motley crew held D-Day’s fate in their hands. Its nucleus consisted of five spies: a bisexual Peruvian playgirl, a diminutive Polish fighter pilot, a mercurial Frenchwoman, a Serbian playboy, and an eccentric Spanish chicken farmer. ![]() The Germans had fallen for Operation Fortitude, a massive Allied deception that hinged on one of the oddest casts of characters ever assembled for a military operation.Īt the heart of Fortitude was Britain’s Double Cross system, which “turned” German spies to the Allied cause, then used them to feed their German handlers misinformation mixed with enough “chicken feed” to keep their reports credible. ![]() While the Allies were securing their tenuous beachhead at Normandy, the Germans kept the bulk of their forces north of the Seine River, expecting the invasion’s main attack to arrive later in the Pas de Calais region. Review: Ben Macintyre's Double Cross Close ![]()
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