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HTML:Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, two thrilling accounts of World War II espionage, are available together as an ebookâ??with an excerpt from the New York Times bestseller Double Cross. AGENT ZIGZAG â?¢ "Wildly improbably but entirely true . . . [a] compellingly cinematic spy thriller with verve."â??Entertainment Weekly Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona ended and the other began. Based on recently declassified files, Agent Zigzag tells Chapman's full story for the first time. It's a gripping tale of loyalty, love, treachery, espionage, and the thin and shifting line between fidelity and betrayal. OPERATION MINCEMEANT "Brilliant and almost absurdly entertaining."â??The New Yorker Near the end of World War II, two British naval officers came up with a brilliant and slightly mad scheme to mislead the Nazi armies about where the Allies would attack southern Europe. To carry out the plan, they would have to rely on the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man. Ben Macintyre's dazzling, critically acclaimed bestseller chronicles the extraordinary story of what happened after British officials planted this dead bodyâ??outfitted in a British military uniform with a briefcase containing false intelligence documentsâ??in Nazi territory, and how this secret mission fooled Hitler into changing military positioning, paving the way for the Allies to overtake the Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)940.548641History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- Military History Of World War II Other Topics Unconventional warfare of Allies Europe British IslesClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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