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Description edit
On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy at the astonishingly low cost of just 5,000 casualties. D-Day was a stunning military accomplishment, but it was also a masterpiece of trickery. Operation Fortitude, which protected and enabled the invasion, and the... read more
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Characters/People edit
- David Ormsby-Gore: Add a description of this character.
- Roger Fleetwood-Hesketh
- Felix Dassel
- Volbrecht
- Hans Oster
- Hoppe
- Dusan ' Dusko ' Popov
- Dickie Metcalfe
- Emile Kliemann
- George Patton
- Alphonse Timmerman
- John Marriott
- Johnny Jebsen
- Bernard Montgomery
- Karl-Erich Kühlenthal
- Mrs. Barton
- Hugo Bleicher
- Roosevelt
- Babs: Dog that almost brought down the invasion
- Charles Haines
- Roman Czerniawski
- Georges Graf
- Yvonne Delidaise
- Thorne
- Mathilde Carré
- Dudley Clarke
- Maurice Wlodarczyk
- Charles de Salis
- Renée Borni
- Molina Pérez
- Gøsta Caroli
- Mrs Roman Czerniawski
- Mabel Harbottle
- Oscar Reile
- Alexis von Roenne: Lieutenant Colonel. Head of Fremde Heere West (aka FHW).
- Dr. Aloys Schreiber
- Wren
- Josef Jakobs
- Maritza Mihailovic
- Monty
- Richard Melville Walker
- Aracelli Pujol
- J. Edgar Hoover
- Ewen Montagu
- Clifton James
- Heinrich Müller: The head of the secret state police. Known for his brutality.
- Heinz Paul Moldenhauer
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Meyrick Clifton James
- Ludovico von Karsthoff
- Max Rudloff
- Chopin
- Goebbels
- Jorge José Mosquera
- Karl Meier
- Hermann Goering
- Joachim von Ribbentrop
- Ethel Wodehouse
- Arthur Owens
- Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt: Supreme commander of the German armies in the West.
- Guy Liddell
- Elvira de la Fuente Chaudoir
- Helmut Bleil
- Gustav
- Anthony Rothschild
- Mary Corrie Sherer
- Elvira Chaudoir
- Friedl Gaertner
- Frank Foley
- Kim Philby
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Wulf Schmidt (aka Agent Tate): Long serving double agent
- Mike Cumberlege
- Alfred Jodl
- Wladislaw Sikorski
- Heinz Jost
- Jack Churchill
- Anthony Blunt
- Marquis de Bona
- Louisa
- Robin Stephens
- Juan Pujol García
- Elena Modrzhinskaya
- Kenneth Benton
- Lore Petersen
- Josef Stalin
- Roger Michael: Head of the FHW's English section. Half English and half German, former German rugby player.
- Baron Hiroshi Oshima
- Lily Grass
- Maria Elera
- Billy Luke
- Hans Joachim Brandes
- Walter Schellenberg
- Adolf Hitler
- Tommy Harris
- Christopher Harmer
- Hugh Astor
- Müntzinger
- Winston Churchill
- Paul Fidrmuc
- Claude Edward Marjoribanks Dansey
- Lily Sergeyev
- Solange
- Stanislaw Gano
- Kammler
- Gisela Ashley
- Claus von Stauffenberg
- Johnny Bevan
- Yevgeni Miller
- Wilhelm Canaris
- David Petrie
- Petra Vermehren
- Wilhelm Kuebart
- Jeff
- Kaltenbrunner
- Skoot
- Eric Glass
- Simone Simon
- Ian David Wilson
- Miss Monica Sheriffe
- Henri Chauvel
- John Masterman
- Stanislas Ujejski
- Georg Hansen
- Tar Robertson
- Himmler
- Erwin Rommel
- Erich Vermehren
- Marie von Gronau
- Christopher Andrew
- Ivo Popov
- Lewis Carroll
- Major Kliemann
- Señor Pujol
- von Karsthoff
- Vichy
- Thomas Argyll Robertson
- Jean Chaudoir
- Monique Deschamps
- Cyril Mills
Setting & Locations edit
- Britain
- Lisbon
- Berlin
- Germany
- London
- South Of France
- England
- Normandy
- Paris
- Madrid
- Gibraltar
- Norway
- Spain
- Pas De Calais
- Us
- Europe
- Scotland
- Portugal
- Poland
- Gestapo
- Uk
- Channel
- New York
- Bordeaux
- America
- Biarritz
- Moscow
- Bletchley Park
- Denmark
- North Africa
- Algiers
- Yugoslavia
- Crespigny Road
- Estoril
- Belgrade
- Bristol
- Cannes
- Japan
- Brighton
- Cambridge
- Tokyo
- Tricycle
- Monty
- Belgium
- Southampton
- Kuebart
- Dubrovnik
- United States
- Cairo
Organizations edit
- Fremde Heeds West (aka FHW): The intelligence branch of the German army.
First Sentence edit
In the summer of 1943, a genteel and soft-spoken intelligence officer wearing tartan trousers and smoking a pipe put the finishing touches to a secret weapon he had been working on for more than three years.
Table of Contents edit
1. Raw Recruits
2. A Bit of an Enigma
3. Roman and the Cat
4. Coat Trailing
5. The Club
6. Garbo Takes the Stage
7. Popov Goes Shopping
8. The Great Game
9. The Flock
10. True Agent, False Agent, Double Agent
11. Cockade
12. Discovered Treasure
13. The Walk-In
14. A Time for Fortitude
15. Enriching the Chicken Feed
16. Artist Paints a Picture
17. Monty's Double
18. The Double Dash
19. Jebsen New Friend
20. "Am I Not Always Careful?"
21. Operation Dora
22. Guest of the Gestapo
23. Bronx Gets Toothache
24. Garbo's Warning
25. Second Innings
Aftermath
Acknowledgments
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- Ben Macintyre (Author)
First Edition edit
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Page Count: 399
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