![]() ![]() No wonder the post-World War II generation has been spy-crazy. But lest the Brits get too cocky about their espionage genius, it’s worth noting that, at the very time they were deceiving the Germans, they were themselves being deceived by the Soviets, who had planted their own spies at the heart of Britain’s MI6 and MI5 services. ![]() On these two pillars of Britain’s wartime intelligence success - the “Double Cross” deception and the “Enigma” code break - stands, at least in part, the great Allied victory in Europe. Not only did the British flip or neutralize every Nazi operative, they were able to assess the success of their deception every step of the way by monitoring Germany’s encrypted intelligence messages. The Brits, in brief, managed to control and manipulate every single German agent sent to Britain to spy on the Allies and their preparations for the decisive June 1944 D-Day invasion. But he does so with such lively writing, and with access to so many interesting new documents, that the story comes alive again in all its stupendous, unimaginable duplicity. ![]() In “Double Cross,” Macintryre tells a tale that will be broadly familiar to those with an interest in military or intelligence history. Is there any nation on Earth more adept at lying than Great Britain? Reading Ben Macintyre’s superb account of Britain’s masterful counter-intelligence operations during World War II, it’s hard to imagine that they have any peers when it comes to the art of deception. ![]()
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