Double Cross: The True Story of The D-Day Spies

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Their enterprise was saved from catastrophe by a shadowy sixth spy whose heroic sacrifice is revealed here for the first time. It was not an idle boast; post-war records confirmed that none of the Abwehr agents, bar one who committed suicide, went unnoticed. A final comment, and also the reason I piped up (ad nauseum) in the first place; the tail end of the preceding article refers to Cross being “the ultimate heroine”.

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In addition to the double agents, the author does look at some of the other methods the Allies used to reinforce what they where sending their German controllers. Every single German agent in Britain was under his control, enabling huge and co-ordinated lies to be told. His business was the ideal cover for traveling to Britain, where he must know many important and influential people. The elaborate plans of the British with the help of their double agents from several countries made possible the D Day landings in Normandy in World War II, duped the Germans into sending their main armies to other venues and thus the Allies won the war. Double Cross is occasionally poignant-- it is, after all, about WWII-- and often incredible, but above all, it is hands-down funny.The theatricality of the moment was compounded by Czerniawski’s announcement that he had already selected a code name for his new accomplice: she would be “La Chatte,” the She-Cat, because “you walk so quietly, in your soft shoes, like a cat. My second book by Ben Macintyre, and almost as good as the first ( A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal). It also focuses on providing strategies, resources and programs that help serve librarians, parents, teachers, and book sellers. In style, his clothes still rivalled Eden’s, but his blond hair was no longer so closely trimmed and he had a neglected moustache, reddened by tobacco. Czerniawski was a Polish patriot, but that phrase cannot do justice to his essential Polishness and the depths of his attachment to his motherland.

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Britain actually had captured and either turned or executed all the spies who had been dropped in by air or had landed by sea. Ben Macintyre's new book attempts to make the case for the importance of the British response to these German agents – the realisation that some of them could be "turned" to feed back to their Abwehr handlers misleading "secrets", which would spread chaos across the Reich. If it were a book of fiction, you'd shake your head in sheer disbelief at the credulity of the bad guys to fall for such a plot.

Back on the street, Bree is asked for an interview from a "reporter", Neil Stephens, who punches Bree and flees. The cliché about spying is that it is like a fairground hall of mirrors, but reading Double Cross, such an attraction does not really seem worth spending good money to visit. Jebsen wore the same expression of “sharp intelligence, cynicism and dark humour,” but he also seemed tense, as if there was something weighing on his mind. The experiment had not appeared to be a success but MI5 had learned lessons about how Abwehr operated and how double agents might be useful.