Hoodwinking Hitler : the Normandy deception

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Hoodwinking Hitler : the Normandy deception

William B. Breuer

Praeger, 1993

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-257) and index

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Despite the mighty invasion force the Americans and British mustered in England in early 1944, a top Allied general warned: If the Germans have even a 48-hour advance notice of the time and place of the Normandy landings, we could suffer a monstrous catastrophe! For his part, Adolf Hitler planned to inflict such a massive bloodbath on the invaders that the Allies would agree to a negotiated peace with Nazi Germany. Hoodwinking Hitler is an action-packed, you-are-there account about a colossal and incredibly intricate deception scheme created and implemented by ingenious and diabolical minds, machinations intended to bamboozle the Germans on true Allied invasion plans. Facets of the global chicanery included electronic spoofing, double agents, diplomatic deceit, whispering campaigns, femmes fatales, camouflage, strategic feints, the French underground, murder plots, phony military installations, misleading bombing raids, sabotage, propaganda, traps, fake codes, and kidnap schemes. On D-Day, June 6, 1944, the Allies gained total surprise, mostly because of what Winston Churchill called the greatest hoax in history. But not until two months later, when the Allies broke out of Normandy, did the deception scheme pass into history. By that time, ultimate Allied victory in Europe was assured.

Table of Contents

A Plot to Murder President Roosevelt An Ingenious Stratagem Is Unveiled The "Santa Clauses" Duel with the "Blacks" Machinations at Herrengasse 23 Istanbul Intrigue Eavesdropping on the Fuehrer A Conspiracy in Lisbon A Flip-Flop by the Russian Bear "Wild Bill" and His OSS The Old Fox Is Trapped Illusions in the Balkans Focus on the Atlantic Wall The Double-Cross "First Violins" Behind the White Cliffs of Dover A Ghost Army Threatens Norway Connivances in Stockholm Tightening the Security Lid A High-Level Epidemic of the Jitters Behind Enemy Lines Vendetta and Copperhead Electronic Spoofing Invasion Fever Threshold of a Mighty Endeavor D-Day Decoys and Deceptions Bombs, Bullets and Broadcasts The Invasion Remains in Jeopardy Rommel Clashes with the Fuehrer Alles Kaputt! Bibliography Index

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