The Deceivers
Allied Military Deception in the Second World War
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April 19, 2004
This colossal and valuable study is clearly a labor of love for Holt, a lawyer and former deputy secretary of the army. It chronicles in thorough detail and smooth prose various operations that the Allies conducted to mislead the Axis as to the time, place, strength and direction of a host of military operations. The foremost of those was, of course, D-Day, and the origins, conduct and imposing logistics of Operation Fortitude are laid out in unsurpassed detail. So are a host of smaller operations, such as Operation Mincemeat, the subject of the book The Man Who Never Was
. The men and women behind the planning and execution included the British career soldier Brig. Dudley W. Clarke; Gordon Merrick, later the author of The Lord Won't Mind
and its successors, one of the first mainstream successes in gay fiction; and actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., who was an amateur sailor and leader of a fine decoy effort in southern France. The achievements of the deceivers were invaluable if not always decisive. Few of them have been chronicled this completely or this well, at least for American readers, in a volume that reads with the fluency of a thriller for any reader with a minimal knowledge of and interest in the war. Agent, Phyllis Westburg.
March 15, 2004
In this massive chronology, Holt, former deputy undersecretary of the U.S. Army, details the complete story of the Allied deception plans undertaken during World War II. Drawing on freshly declassified Pentagon documents, he begins with the early British accomplishments in the Middle East and Africa under the aegis of Brig. Dudley Clarke and ends with Operation Pastel, the deception plan covering the invasion of Japan. The war's story appears in an entirely different light when overlaid with the various deception plans, most spectacularly the vital D-day feint that led Hitler to expect a landing at Calais. This story would only be half told without the work (well detailed here) of the agents and double agents who made strategic deception a success, from the well-known Peter Fleming, brother of James Bond creator Ian, to the little-known Juan Garcia, code-named Garbo, decorated by both the British and the Germans for his war work. Highly recommended.-David Lee Poremba, Detroit P.L.
Copyright 2004 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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