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

Ben Macintyre

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In his celebrated bestsellers Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, Ben Macintyre told the dazzling true stories of a remarkable WWII double agent and of how the Allies employed a corpse to fool the Nazis and assure a decisive victory. In Double Cross, Macintyre returns with the untold story of the grand final deception of the war and of the extraordinary spies who achiev In his celebrated bestsellers Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, Ben Macintyre told the dazzling true stories of a remarkable WWII double agent and of how the Allies employed a corpse to fool the Nazis and assure a decisive victory. In Double Cross, Macintyre returns with the untold story of the grand final deception of the war and of the extraordinary spies who achieved it.

   On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of 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 Double Cross system, which specialized in turning German spies into double agents, deceived the Nazis into believing that the Allies would attack at Calais and Norway rather than Normandy. It was the most sophisticated and successful deception operation ever carried out, ensuring that Hitler kept an entire army awaiting a fake invasion, saving thousands of lives, and securing an Allied victory at the most critical juncture in the war.

   The story of D-Day has been told from the point of view of the soldiers who fought in it, the tacticians who planned it, and the generals who led it. But this epic event in world history has never before been told from the perspectives of the key individuals in the Double Cross System. These include its director (a brilliant, urbane intelligence officer), a colorful assortment of MI5 handlers (as well as their counterparts in Nazi intelligence), and the five spies who formed Double Cross’s nucleus: a dashing Serbian playboy, a Polish fighter-pilot, a bisexual Peruvian party girl, a deeply eccentric Spaniard with a diploma in chicken farming and a volatile Frenchwoman, whose obsessive love for her pet dog very nearly wrecked the entire plan. The D-Day spies were, without question, one of the oddest military units ever assembled, and their success depended on the delicate, dubious relationship between spy and spymaster, both German and British. Their enterprise was saved from catastrophe by a shadowy sixth spy whose heroic sacrifice is revealed here for the first time.

   With the same depth of research, eye for the absurd and masterful storytelling that have made Ben Macintyre an international bestseller, Double Cross is a captivating narrative of the spies who wove a web so intricate it ensnared Hitler’s army and carried thousands of D-Day troops across the Channel in safety. ...more

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Sep 24, 2012 Hannah rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012-reads, spies-espionage, non-fiction

The least entertaining and successful of Macintyre's WWII spy books IMO, probably because the cast of characters was too numerous and nothing interesting really happened until the final 100 pages.

Nonetheless, fans of non-fiction espionage should find some wheat amongst the chaff in this revelation of the part spies and deception played in the successful allied invasion of Normandy (otherwise known as D-Day).

Macintyre knows his material, and gives the reader a full complement of material availabl ...more

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Sep 14, 2017 happy rated it really liked it

Shelves: history-world-war-ii

With this narrative Mr. Macintyre once again proves he is a master of telling the stories of British Intelligence. This book is more than the story of Operation Fortitude, the Allies attempt to convince the Germans that the invasion of France was going to be somewhere other than Normandy. The author tells the story of how British Intelligence - MI 6 completely penetrated the German spy network in Great Britain and used that control to tell the Germans exactly what the Allies wanted them to hear With this narrative Mr. Macintyre once again proves he is a master of telling the stories of British Intelligence. This book is more than the story of Operation Fortitude, the Allies attempt to convince the Germans that the invasion of France was going to be somewhere other than Normandy. The author tells the story of how British Intelligence - MI 6 completely penetrated the German spy network in Great Britain and used that control to tell the Germans exactly what the Allies wanted them to hear and to a great extent what the Germans themselves wanted to believe. According to the author, every agent Germany attempted to insert into Great Britain was captured. Most were imprisoned, a few executed and some became double agents

The author does a good job of describing the covert intel war on the Iberian Peninsula. It seems it became the central theater in the war between MI 6 and German Intelligence - the Abwehr. Especially in the early war, most of the German controllers were based in either Spain or Portugal. In telling the story of the Abwehr’s attempts to get agents into Britain, Mr. Macintyre does an excellent job to discussing the weaknesses and frankly the gullibility in the German agents controlling their British Spy ring.

He looks at how both sides recruited agents, controlled them, their methods of communications and how the British used the time delay for getting information from Britain to Spain to their advantage. Sometimes this was done in letting agents give the Germans actual operational details, but timed in such a way that they would arrive too late to be of any use.

When he starts telling of the story of Operation Fortitude, he looks at just how the information the agents were giving the Germans reinforced their preconceived notions of when and where they invasions would take place – the area around the Pal de Calais in northern France and closest part of France to Britain. He also tells of how they inflated the Allied Order of Battle to such an extent that even after the troops landed on D-Day the Germans believed that there was still enough strength in Britain to conduct another landing.

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. This includes the famous rubber vehicles and planes, false radio traffic, using General Patton as a decoy etc.

The author also looks at the American attempts to get into the intel game how it almost cost MI 6 one of their better agents. It seems that in the attempt to be good partners, MI 6 let the FBI/OSS run one the agents who had moved to the US. The attempt failed because Herbert Hoover, the head of the FBI, did not believe in or trust double agents and wouldn’t allow the agent to be given anything at all believable or of any use to the Germans. After about six months the agent reverted to British control and according to the author left a bad taste all around and a rather large hotel bill for the Americans to pay.

Finally, in telling the stories of the agents he really does look at their motivations. The men and women's reasons ran the gamut - from patriotism, one was a Polish Fighter pilot who despised the Germans, to greed, a couple of them were looking for someone to bankroll their lifestyles, to boredom with life and the thought that spying would be “exciting”. The author includes an epilogue that tells what happened to the main characters after the war that I found extremely interesting.

I found this a very informational and gripping read. It is definitely a 4+ star read. I rounded down for GR. ...more

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Aug 25, 2012 Ruth rated it it was amazing

Shelves: non-fiction-history, biography, mystery-thriller-spies-suspense

This is an astonishingly good, absolutely riveting account of a disparate group of individuals whose exploits during WW2 went largely unsung. It was provided to me by netgalley and is well written with humor, empathy and clarity. It brings in accounts of other operations and the bigger picture to provide context, but never moves away from the double agents themselves.

I honestly had no idea that such an infuriating, temperamental, intelligent and diverse a group of people played such an important ...more

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May 08, 2013 Joan rated it it was amazing

Recommends it for: British and WWII history interests

Shelves: english-history, adult-books, european-or-asian-history, history-general, nonfiction

This book was absolutely hilarious. It is proof of the old adage that truth is stranger than fiction. I don't think any fiction authors could invent the wacky people in this book because they wouldn't have been believed.I quote a few sentences from the book to prove my point (p.5-6):

"For the D-Day spies were, without question, one of the oddest military units ever assembled. They included a bisexual Peruvian playgirl, a tiny Polish fighter pilot, a mercurial Frenchwoman a Serbian seducer, and a This book was absolutely hilarious. It is proof of the old adage that truth is stranger than fiction. I don't think any fiction authors could invent the wacky people in this book because they wouldn't have been believed.I quote a few sentences from the book to prove my point (p.5-6):

"For the D-Day spies were, without question, one of the oddest military units ever assembled. They included a bisexual Peruvian playgirl, a tiny Polish fighter pilot, a mercurial Frenchwoman a Serbian seducer, and a deeply eccentric Spaniard with a diploma in chicken farming....the Double Cross spies were, variously, courageous, treacherous, capricious, greedy and inspired....One was so obsessed with her pet dog that she came close to derailing the entire invasion. All were, to some extent fantasists, for that is the very essence of espionage. Two were of dubious moral character.One was a triple, and possibly a quadruple, agent."

The author is quite aware of how funny his material can be in places but in typical British understated style, simply presents the information knowing that readers would find this funnier for it not being labeled as such. However, before anyone gets the idea that the writer is simply having a great time with this material, the last few pages are a tribute to one spy in particular who likely died in a concentration camp although no one really knows his fate. He also makes it clear throughout the book how essential this effort was. The misinformation fed to the Germans meant that they refused to move additional troops to Normandy when D-Day happened. This kept the casualties much lower than they would have otherwise and possibly kept the end of the war from being a few years later. In many ways, James Bond would have been unable to keep up with these people, at least intellectually. Physically, of course, 007 would have outstripped them easily. These people were warriors with words, not your typical warriors. Many of the actual warriors survived the war thanks to the outrageous lies these people fed their German handlers. However, the success of the entire unit belonged to the supervisors of these people. They had to baby, cajole, humor, lie, carouse, and threaten these people, never being completely sure that a few of them weren't actually working for the other side and deceiving the Brits.

The author notes that this story wouldn't have been able to be written at all if the British secret services hadn't fairly recently decided to open up the files for this time period. The spies themselves pretty much expected that their stories would never be known.

To sum up, this book is serious history written with a keen eye for the absurd. Highly recommended. I plan on rereading it again some day when my to read pile isn't so ridiculous. ...more

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Jul 29, 2018 Jill Mackin rated it really liked it

Shelves: espionage, non-fiction, ww2

A great story about the misinformation fed to German intelligence by a group of spies and double agents working for MI5 during WW2 culminating in a successful D-Day landing at Normandy.

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Sep 26, 2012 Paul rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: books-read-2015

D Day. The beginning of the end of the Second World War. But for this massive operation to succeed the Allies had to do every trick in the book to convince the Nazis that the invasion was going to take place in a different location.

So was conceived Operation Fortitude, an audacious plan of lies, deception and misinformation to persuade the military that the invasion was going to take place in Norway and Calais. This team of double agents, Bronx, Brutus, Treasure, Tricycle and Garbo fed back to t ...more

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Apr 24, 2018 A.L. Sowards rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2018, history-wwii, nonfiction, audio-book, history-1900s

I’m so glad I listened to this audiobook. I’ve had several of Mr. Macintyre’s books on my to-read list for a while, and this one didn’t disappoint! I’ve read multiple books on British WWII intelligence and D-day deception schemes (my first novel was about D-day deceptions schemes, so I did a fair amount of research), but I still learned something new. This book will now be my go-to recommendation for readers wanting a nonfiction account of D-day spies. Great bit of history told with skilled writ ...more

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Nov 14, 2016 Carly rated it it was amazing

Shelves: nonfiction

This book. Is. Amazing.

Do you know how many uncaptured German spies were operating in Britain during WWII?
Zero.
That's right.

Every single German spy was either captured or became part of MI5's XX System, aka "Double-Cross." And each one of them was... a character. As McIntyre puts it:

"They included a bisexual Peruvian playgirl, a tiny Polish fighter pilot, a mercurial Frenchwoman a Serbian seducer, and a deeply eccentric Spaniard with a diploma in chicken farming. Together, under Robertson's guid

"They included a bisexual Peruvian playgirl, a tiny Polish fighter pilot, a mercurial Frenchwoman a Serbian seducer, and a deeply eccentric Spaniard with a diploma in chicken farming. Together, under Robertson's guidance, they delivered all of the little lies that together made up the big lie.
[...]
The Double Cross spies were, variously, courageous, treacherous, capricious, greedy, and inspired. They were not obvious heroes, and their organization was betrayed from within by a Soviet spy. One was so obsessed with her pet dog that she came close to derailing the entire invasion. All were, to some extent, fantasists, for that is the very essence of espionage. Two were of dubious moral character.One was a triple, and possibly a quadruple, agent."

The story of the Double Cross spies reads like a British farce, up to and including the fact that all of the spies were given punny names. One of the handlers thought of the entire war in times of cricket. One agent, codenamed Garbo, created an entirely imaginary network of sub-spies that comprised 27 hallucinated agents. Another nearly drove MI5 to send a warship to bring her dog over and avoid the sacrosanct quarantine laws. Yet another began his career in Portugal, making up fake reports for the Germans about Liverpudlians hanging out in wine bars and naval exercises in what turned out to be landlocked lakes. No matter how easily the British managed to defeat the Germans in the spying game, the Soviets' Cambridge Five had just as successfully infiltrated them. Yet the Cambridge Five were, if anything, too successful: knowing from their spies about Double Cross, the Soviets were convinced their own agents had also been doubled. Oh, the perils of paranoia.

Double Cross is occasionally poignant-- it is, after all, about WWII-- and often incredible, but above all, it is hands-down funny. My favourite quote:

One evening, in his safe house in Hinxton, near Cambridge, Caroli crept up behind his minder while he was playing solitaire and tried to throttle him with a piece of rope. When this failed, he apologized, tied the man to a chair, and ran off with a can of sardines, a pineapple, and a large canvas shoe. He then stole a motorcycle and motored, very slowly, toward the coast with the canoe balanced on his head. He intended to paddle to Holland. A roadman reported to police that a man with a canoe had fallen off his motorcycle on Pamisford road, and he had helped the man throw the canoe over a hedge.'

If you're looking for a crazy fun nonfiction book to read, then Double Cross is it. ...more

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May 25, 2012 J.C. added it

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I ran out of gas around page 65. I don't know why I keep picking up spy non fiction books when I know that there is nothing exciting about the life of a real spy. Only James Bond, that Bourne guy and Sterling Archer have exciting lives in espionage and they are fictitious characters; and that Bourne guy wasn't even a spy technically, he was just a crazy assassin who lost his marbles. ...more

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Feb 21, 2019 Nigeyb rated it really liked it

I am a big fan of the mighty Ben Macintyre, so it was only a matter of time before I'd read Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies.

In Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies, Macintyre relates the untold story of the extraordinary band of agents and double agents who convinced the Nazis that the 150,000 Allied troops who landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day were just one part of a larger invasion plan with others to follow at Calais and Norway. This belief convinced the N ...more

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Sep 10, 2017 Melanie Fraser rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: historical, espionage, non-fiction, owned

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.

Ben Macintyre writes this historical series of events with humour and drama for Double Cross was a magnificent and ingeniously stage managed inspiration by Tar Robertson and others in MI5 and M16 that could so easily have gone horribly wrong. Tha ...more

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Oct 16, 2017 K.J. Charles added it

Shelves: non-fiction, proper-spies, ww2

I am apparently on a WW2 spy kick. Another fascinating story of unlikely heroism dragged out of the depths of some very dodgy people, as a set of playboys and playgirls, weirdos, cheats and chicken farmers become double agents in the teeth of Nazi Germany, culminating in the grand Operation Bodyguard that allowed Overlord, the D-Day landings, to succeed.

Possibly "ordinary people stepping up to the plate in the teeth of fascism" is why I'm reading all these, in fact. A great story anyway, and on ...more

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Apr 28, 2016 Jill Meyer rated it it was amazing

Before you begin reading this book, take a look at the map at the very front. It's a map of northern France and southern England. Notice how close the cities of Dover and Calais are; the sea distance is about 21 miles. Meanwhile, continue west to the widest gap between France and England which is about 100 miles. That's the distance between Portsmouth, England and the five Normandy beaches. Those 100 miles were crossed by the American, British, and Canadian forces on June 6, 1944 - D-Day. Why th Before you begin reading this book, take a look at the map at the very front. It's a map of northern France and southern England. Notice how close the cities of Dover and Calais are; the sea distance is about 21 miles. Meanwhile, continue west to the widest gap between France and England which is about 100 miles. That's the distance between Portsmouth, England and the five Normandy beaches. Those 100 miles were crossed by the American, British, and Canadian forces on June 6, 1944 - D-Day. Why the Allied forces chose to set the invasion on this particular plot of land in France, reachable after an all-night trip from England, is the topic of many other books about WW2. This book, "Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies" by Ben MacIntyre, is the story of how British intelligence worked to make the Germans think the imminent invasion would occur at Calais, rather than Normandy.

By 1942 the smart money in Germany was on an invasion on the European continent in France or Scandinavia by Allied forces. It was thought to be both inevitable and somewhat imminent. The time factor was based on many things, including build-up of invasion forces, the war effort in other European theater sites, and, of course, the geography of France. Just looking at a map shows the shortest distance was from Dover in Kent to Calais - as I wrote before, about 21 miles. Hitler and the German High Command were expecting the invasion in that area, and had mined the beaches and inner area in preparation for repelling an invasion. There were many troops stationed in the area, too. But, the Germans also mined and prepared the Normandy beaches with the same mines and hill top fortifications, though not as many as in Calais and they also had fewer troops stationed in Normandy.

British intelligence - MI5 (national) and MI6 (international) were cooperating in controlling German spies inside the UK. The "idea" of spies - both homegrown and dropped in - was much worse than the truth of the matter. Britain actually had captured and either turned or executed all the spies who had been dropped in by air or had landed by sea. These German "spies" tended to be a dismal lot of dullards who ineptly gave themselves away by various means to the Brits who would literally stumble upon them. But a few of the spies could be used to broadcast back to Germany what their British controls ordered them to say.

Another group of spies were individuals - in this case, French, Polish, Spanish, and Peruvian(!) - who had come to British embassies in Lisbon and Madrid and offered their services to the Allied war effort. Their reasons ranged from mercenary (nearly everyone's) to patriotic (the Polish man who had set up a spy network in France that had been broken up by the Germans before he volunteered to help the Brits). Most were double crossing the Germans who also handled them. With this patched together network, based in London, Madrid, and Lisbon, British intelligence was able to hone the message their new agents were sending back to Germany. Honing the message to throw the Germans off the true site of the inevitable invasion, from Normandy to Calais and to the timing of the invasion. Using fake letters, some "real" but not important bits of intel, and even the "sighting" of British General Montgomery in Gibraltar, by using an actor to play Montgomery. If "Monty" was in Gibraltar in late May, then how could he possibly be working on the upcoming invasion?

Ben MacIntyre - who also wrote an excellent book a couple of years ago called "Operation Mincemeat" about the attempt to throw German intelligence off the prospective Allied invasion of Sicily - returns here with a sometimes humorous, but always serous, story of the spies, the spy masters, the actors, the military staffs, who together pulled off the successful trick of getting the Germans to consider the Pas de Calais as the ONLY invasion area, even after the main invasion had begun on June 6th! Still expecting the invasion to take place to the east, many German troops were kept back from that area, joining too late their fellow soldiers repelling the Allied forces at Normandy to the west. MacIntyre's book on D-Day and the spies and agents who kept the secret and helped focus German intelligence on other places and other times, is filled with characters usually found only in fiction. I suppose it takes a certain individual with the flair and guts to pull of a double crossing spying job, and the five or so foreign spies who were on Sir John Masterman's "Double Cross" system payroll were an intriguing lot. This book is a must-read for the WW2 buff. (By the way, his writing on pigeons - both German and Allied - being used in spying, is a hoot.) ...more

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Jan 20, 2012 Susan rated it it was amazing

Anyone who has read anything by Ben Macintyre before will know that they are in for a treat. He is a wonderful storyteller and, in this book, he is on territory he seems to understand brilliantly and relish. The Allied military planners were working on the the great assault on Nazi Occupied Europe - the D-Day invasion would decide the outcome of the war. In order to convince the Germans that the invasion was coming where it was not actually coming, and not coming in the place where it was actual Anyone who has read anything by Ben Macintyre before will know that they are in for a treat. He is a wonderful storyteller and, in this book, he is on territory he seems to understand brilliantly and relish. The Allied military planners were working on the the great assault on Nazi Occupied Europe - the D-Day invasion would decide the outcome of the war. In order to convince the Germans that the invasion was coming where it was not actually coming, and not coming in the place where it was actually coming, a huge amount of effort was expended. There were dummy planes, tanks and even dummy armies in place to fool the Germans. There were even pigeons masquerading as German carrier pigeons (lots more on pigeons in the book - they play a larger part than you might imagine!). There were impersonators to convince the Germans that military leaders were elsewhere. Counterfeit generals led non-existent armies. Radio operators created a barrage of fake signals. Finally, there were spies. The Allies had a harder task than it appears in hindsight, knowing that it succeeded, as the targer range for a cross-Channel invasion was small. There were only a handful of suitable spots for a massed landing and it was important that the entire might of the German forces were not waiting when the Allies landed.

Tar Robertson created a bodyguard of liars - the "Double Cross System" coordinated by the Twenty (XX) Committee. They specialised in turning German spies into double agents. Every single German agent in Britain was under his control, enabling huge and co-ordinated lies to be told. The task of Operation Fortitude was to bottle up German troops in the Pas de Calais and keep them there - this ability depended on Robertson's spies. These included a bisexual Peruvian playgirl, a tiny Polish fighter pilot, a mercurial Frenchwoman who adored her dog, a Serbian seducer and an eccentric Spaniard with marital problems. These spies never met, but together they created false trails, gave false information and often created totally false networks of sub-spies, including a group of entirely fictional Welsh fascists - all of which the Germans swallowed completely. In some cases, very extensive lies were not even noticed by the Germans, whereas the Allies had much confidential information (courtesy of Bletchly Park) even before the Germans themselves were aware of it. It is astounding to realise the control the Allies had over information sent to the Germans and the inventive ways to which this was put to use.

This then is a great book of subterfuge, downright lies, great ingenuity and often, great courage, for no reward other than a belief in freedom. Many of these individuals had families threatened by the Germans, at least one person connected to the group was arrested, and there was always the risk of being discovered which would undoubtedly led to many more deaths of Allied troops when D-Day arrived. Nobody could tell this story as Ben Macintyre does, with dry humour, great understatement and a great deal of respect for his subjects. ...more

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Sep 05, 2013 John Frazier rated it really liked it

I doubt I'll live long enough to fully appreciate the innumerable stories that continue to publish almost 70 years after the end of World War II, and this is just one more example of what makes most of them so engaging, so captivating, so essential. You don't get labeled as a "World War" without involving a good portion of the globe and, although it involves perhaps the most chronicled event of the war in D-Day and the Normandy Invasion, "Double Cross" is the riveting story of a handful of behin I doubt I'll live long enough to fully appreciate the innumerable stories that continue to publish almost 70 years after the end of World War II, and this is just one more example of what makes most of them so engaging, so captivating, so essential. You don't get labeled as a "World War" without involving a good portion of the globe and, although it involves perhaps the most chronicled event of the war in D-Day and the Normandy Invasion, "Double Cross" is the riveting story of a handful of behind-the-lines soldiers who never engaged in traditional combat but who had as much influence, if not more, over the outcome as any pilot, sailor or soldier.

"The True Story of the D-Day Spies" is about five men and women who for reasons as varied as their backgrounds ultimately pledge their allegiance to the Allied cause and MI-5 and MI-6, two branches of Britain's more covert operations subsequently made (more) famous by the likes of Ian Fleming and 007, James Bond himself. While few were rewarded with any monies nearly commensurate with their responsibilities and risks, none of them did what they did for fame, which is the last thing any double agent wants or needs. Were it not for public information acts that made public their involvement years after the fact, author Ben Macintyre would've had to file this one under "fiction," in which case much of this would simply not be believed.

Playboys, loyalists and people whose lives had otherwise been irreversibly impacted by the spreading German occupancy eventually found themselves as members of a team whose primary responsibility was to lead the Nazi leadership into thinking that the D-Day assault would take place in any number of places other than Normandy, whose proximity to Britain's coastline made it an obvious choice. Among the misdirected targets were the Mediterranean, Norway and the northern coast of France.

While Macintyre adroitly focuses on the day-today machinations of this band of seeming misfits, what makes them even more fascinating is the personal life each leads in secret. A couple are bon vivants who seem tailor-made for lives of espionage; another is a middle-age woman whose attachment to her dog threatens to unravel her cover and story at virtually every turn. These, as we learn, are exactly the kind of people whom the rest of us least suspect of gleaning and transmitting secrets that could impact and affect the course of wars. All seem at one point capable of turning from a double spy to a triple spy (or even a quadruple spy), yet ultimately each makes the decisions and takes the actions required to mislead the Germans on June 6, 1944, and none should be viewed as anything less than heroic, their contributions impossible to overestimate.

Their work didn't end then. That their duplicity was required and, in fact, extended well beyond that date is testament to just how effective they were.

Well-researched and well-written, "Double Cross" moves along at a very brisk pace and, in the end, is well worth your time. ...more

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Aug 24, 2020 Laura Noggle rated it liked it

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What a cast of characters! Excellent writing by Macintyre, but not as quite as good as *A Spy Among Friends* or *The Spy and the Traitor* — perhaps a bit too spread out in scope.

“For the D-Day spies were, without question, one of the oddest military units ever assembled. They included a bisexual Peruvian playgirl, a tiny Polish fighter pilot, a mercurial Frenchwoman, a Serbian seducer, and a deeply eccentric Spaniard with a diploma in chicken farming.”

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Oct 23, 2020 Eric rated it it was amazing

This was an excellent book, if you like true spy stories. Ben Macintyre does as good of a job getting into the thinking of a spy as the best fictional spy writers, but in this case, he's doing it with the real double (and sometimes triple or more) spies of WWII that fooled Hitler & the German High Command into thinking that the D-Day invasion at Normandy was just a diversion, hence they didn't send enough reinforcements there in time to stop it...until it was too late. The author works off of de ...more

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Apr 07, 2012 Bettie rated it liked it

Shelves: published-2012, wwii, spring-2012, history, nonfiction, radio-4, spies, fradio

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blurbs - A team of agents (codenames Bronx, Brutus, Treasure, Tricycle and Garbo) is recruited to work as part of the 'Double Cross System' run by the secret Twenty Committee.

D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of deceit, aimed at convincing the Nazis that Calais and Norway, not Normandy, were the targets of the 150,000-strong invasion force. The deception involved e ...more

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Dec 30, 2012 Geza Tatrallyay rated it really liked it

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An excellent, gripping tale of the efforts in MI5 to turn and use 5 spies as double agents, who end up playing a key role in deceiving the Germans about the time and place of the D-Day attack. It really brings home what a slim margin the Allied victory in WW II hung on, and the key roles that a handful of unsung individuals played in making it happen. Well worth a read.

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Dec 06, 2018 Sunil rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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After visiting the International Spy Museum in D.C., I was super interested in learning more about real-life spies, and my friend recommended Ben Macintyre's Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies. Which relates how British double agents ensured the success of D-Day by fooling the Germans into believing that the Normandy invasion would actually be occurring in several other locations.

This. Story. Is. Fucking. Unreal.

Two things become very clear after listening to this book. One, the Bri After visiting the International Spy Museum in D.C., I was super interested in learning more about real-life spies, and my friend recommended Ben Macintyre's Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies. Which relates how British double agents ensured the success of D-Day by fooling the Germans into believing that the Normandy invasion would actually be occurring in several other locations.

This. Story. Is. Fucking. Unreal.

Two things become very clear after listening to this book. One, the British were very good at being spies but it is still a miracle that this worked given the various individuals involved. Two, the Germans were so bad at being spies. So bad. So very, very, very bad. My fucking God. At one point this point is proven by the fact that the British come up with a particularly ingenious method of screwing with pigeon spies (excuse me, Pigeon spies) and the Germans just...don't notice because they assume it is literally impossible to do what the British actually did.

Here's another thing. Eventually every single German spy in Britain was a double agent.

Let me repeat that. EVERY. SINGLE. GERMAN. SPY. IN. BRITAIN. WAS. A. DOUBLE. AGENT.

The Germans were so bad at being spies they were paying people to lie to them.

Ben Macintyre's greatest strength is his extensive research and sourcing that allows him to find the humanity in all of these people, giving us scenes where someone notices the color of someone's eyes or two spies unintentionally recreate a scene from A Star Is Born. He never loses sight of who these people are, and many of them are colorful, memorable characters like Serbian playboy Dusko Popov (one of the inspirations for James Bond), who is clearly one of the most competent and entertaining spies in the whole operation; Peruvian playgirl Elvira de la Fuente Chaudoir, who sadly does not actually get a lot of screentime but is always a delight because her being a Lesbian so confounded her employers; Spaniard Juan Pujol, who created an entire fake network of spies; and Frenchwoman Lily Sergeyev, whose entire story revolves around the fact that she loves her fucking dog so fucking much that she becomes a huge liability that could have brought the whole operation down. And that's only three of, like..a lot of spies in this book.

Ben Macintyre's greatest weakness is his understandable inability to knead the intricate complexities of this story involving so many different characters who don't even interact most of the time into something resembling a coherent narrative. Life doesn't conform to narrative expectations, of course, so even though I wanted to see way more of Elvira, it's not Macintyre's fault that she was really good at sending letters but that was basically all she did so we just check in with her occasionally. Which is how this book essentially operates. We check in with various spies throughout, sometimes meandering over here to some other subplot, sometimes checking back on this other minor spy (Macintyre does helpfully continue to remind the reader of real names and codenames and sometimes even epithets), sometimes providing a holistic look at the operation and bringing Churchill in. It's a...lot, and he doesn't seem to have a structure on a macro or a micro level to provide a tree to hang all these wonderful anecdotal ornaments on.

The book is slow going at first because it takes quite a while to recruit all these spies, but once the Double-Cross System truly kicks into gear, it is so much fun to watch all these machinations, and Macintyre absolutely delights in how hilariously hoodwinked the German Abwehr was, rarely missing an opportunity to rub their noses in it. John Lee conveys that delight well in his reading, and he's also excellent at reading quoted material in differently accented voices. Plus he can convey the difference between "lesbian" and "Lesbian," which is fantastic. Double Cross is extremely dense, packed with information, and while it can be hard to follow, it's a thorough tribute to the men and women (and pigeons) who put their lives at risk for the sake of this war, a true testament to the power of clever collaborative spycraft. ...more

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Dec 29, 2020 Emily rated it really liked it

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A few months ago, I decided to accept my pandemic attention span as it is, and not feel guilty about what I choose to read--embarking on a schedule of, mostly, rereading. Double Cross was a new book but it's by a familiar author on a familiar theme so it worked out anyway.

In 1943, MI6 realized that all German spies in Britain were either captured or under their control. Using an extremely motley and unlikely group of double agents, who couldn't be contradicted by any remaining real spies, they s A few months ago, I decided to accept my pandemic attention span as it is, and not feel guilty about what I choose to read--embarking on a schedule of, mostly, rereading. Double Cross was a new book but it's by a familiar author on a familiar theme so it worked out anyway.

In 1943, MI6 realized that all German spies in Britain were either captured or under their control. Using an extremely motley and unlikely group of double agents, who couldn't be contradicted by any remaining real spies, they set about relaying a false plan for D-Day that led the Germans to hold military units down in northern France even as the invading force got a foothold to the south. One thing I thought was particularly interesting about this book (having visited Bletchley Park a few years ago) was that the Enigma decrypts didn't just expose German plans to the Allies--they also allowed them to know for sure that their double agents still had credibility with their German spymasters and hence escalate the plan as D-Day approached. Probably the biggest downside of this book was the relative lack of information about the five spies profiled here compared to some of Macintyre's other subjects. There are a lot of people in this book and they aren't as vivid.

A stray thought inspired by this read: part of the enduring fascination of the World War II period (aside from the obvious: the existentially important battle between good and evil) was the state of communications of the period. Their communications technologies extended the possibility of long-range communications but without much confidence or detail. For example, one amusing episode in this book is when the Allied tricksters send a double for General Montgomery to Gibraltar so he will be spotted in a misleading place by Nazi spies. That wouldn't have been worth it before the two world wars, because intel about the general's presence might not have made it to decision-makers in time. It wouldn't be worth it today because there would be too many data points about the real general's location, and the general probably doesn't need to be so near the action anyway. The communications of the time led to increased skulduggery and cleverness, which still makes for good reading today. ...more

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Aug 13, 2012 Mal Warwick rated it really liked it

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A New Spin on Why the Normandy Invasion Succeeded

Americans' views of the Second World War have been dominated by films, books, and television specials about the role that U.S. troops played in the fighting. Even today, more than half a century after the war ended, we tend to believe that it was our ingenuity and industrial might and the sheer guts and persistence of American soldiers and sailors that defeated Nazi Germany -- and, to borrow a phrase from the preceding Great War, "made the world s A New Spin on Why the Normandy Invasion Succeeded

Americans' views of the Second World War have been dominated by films, books, and television specials about the role that U.S. troops played in the fighting. Even today, more than half a century after the war ended, we tend to believe that it was our ingenuity and industrial might and the sheer guts and persistence of American soldiers and sailors that defeated Nazi Germany -- and, to borrow a phrase from the preceding Great War, "made the world safe for democracy." This is just one of a great many signs of our insularity and the widespread belief in the so-called exceptionalism of our nation.

However, serious historical studies have long since established the truth that Stalin's Soviet Union carried a much larger burden than ours. It was the German defeat at the monumental Battle of Stalingrad (July 1942 - February 1943) that was the true turning point in the European war. That victory alone cost the Red Army more than 1.1 million casualties; in the war as a whole, 26.6 million Soviets died. (U.S. deaths totaled 418,500.) And research in more recent years, as hitherto secret archives have been opened to the public, has revealed the seminal role of the British Secret Intelligence Services, both MI5 (counterespionage) and MI6 (foreign intelligence) that made possible the success of the U.S.-led Normandy Invasion on D-Day (June 6, 1944).

If you have even a cursory knowledge of World War II, you're probably familiar with the names George Patton, Omar Bradley, and Dwight Eisenhower. It's highly unlikely, however, that you've ever come across any mention of Elvira Concepcion Josefina de la Fuentes Chaudoir, Roman Czerniawski, Lily Sergeyev, Dusko Popov, Juan Pujol Garcia, and Johnny Jebsen. In their own way, these six European double agents who were "turned" or recruited by the British played roles as large as those of any American general in the success of the invasion that opened up the Western Front.

Because British intelligence, working through these six extraordinary individuals in the Double Cross System, managed to mislead the Germans about the date and place of the invasion, McIntyre writes, it "was a military sucker punch. Senior German commanders were not only unprepared but positively relaxed." Everyone in a key position on the Nazi side, including Hitler himself, had bought the elaborate deception that kept powerful German forces locked up elsewhere, expecting Anglo-American invaders in Norway, the French Atlantic coast, and, most of all, in the Pas de Calais peninsula in Northern France, convinced that the Normandy action was simply a diversion. As we all know, of course, the real Normandy invasion was a desperate and bloody battle nonetheless, anything but a certain victory for the Allies. Eisenhower and Montgomery, who led the invasion force, later acknowledged that if the Germans hadn't been fooled, if they had reinforced their troops on the line in Normandy, the invasion might well have ended in a massacre of Allied troops.

As Ben McIntyre writes in Double Cross, "the D-Day spies were, without question, one of the oddest military units ever assembled. They included a bisexual Peruvian playgirl [who was heir to a guano fortune], a tiny [and fanatically patriotic] Polish fighter pilot, a mercurial Frenchwoman [who loved her little dog Babs more than any person], a Serbian seducer, . . . a deeply eccentric Spaniard with a diploma in chicken farming," and a Danish-German Anglophile whose sideline business of currency and commodity manipulation would have put Catch 22`s Milo Minderbender to shame. What is most astonishing about the highly unlikely stories McIntyre tells in this detail-filled account is that they're all true.

Double Cross is McIntyre's third book about British intelligence during World War II. His previous books -- Operation Mincemeat and Agent Zigzag -- relate equally improbable exploits, which are nonetheless also completely true. The earlier books, both bestsellers, were fascinating to read, filled with all the tension of superior thrillers. In Double Cross, McIntyre attempts to tell a vastly more complex tale, encompassing a veritable army of characters, both British and German, and a bewildering sequence of interconnected events. He comes up short. There's simply too much going on for any but the most retentive reader to follow all six threads. I was nearly two-thirds of the way through the book before I could even keep all the spies straight, let alone the ever-changing cast of their handlers on both sides.

Although Double Cross is a little difficult to follow at times, it's still a thoroughly enjoyable and often surprising read. You can be the life of any party for months, retelling the story of the British carrier pigeons who played a special role in Operation Double Cross, or the one about the Spanish chicken farmer working for MI5 who fabricated the identities of an army of sub-agents, fed the Abwehr with thousands of pages of entirely fictitious reports -- and received a German Iron Cross for his courageous and resourceful efforts to defend the Fatherland.

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Zero stars. I never bail on books, even when I am not loving them. But this one literally was just a guy reading off names. Seriously. Got through 6 chapters, I hadn’t heard the same name twice, and had no idea how any of them were connected. Horrible.

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Oct 02, 2015 Mary rated it it was amazing

Shelves: how-to, psychology, history, war, espionage, wwii

One of the greatest stories ever pieced together! Really. Macintyre assembles a complex, nearly incomprehensible story into an amusing Mercedes Benz of a book. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction. He transforms a clearly tremendous effort of preparation on his part into a suspenseful, informative spy story. I love “his” mostly disparate “characters:” The whole lot of double crossers, their German and British handlers and everybody else at MI5 and 6. This is a helluvan example of a British-lead One of the greatest stories ever pieced together! Really. Macintyre assembles a complex, nearly incomprehensible story into an amusing Mercedes Benz of a book. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction. He transforms a clearly tremendous effort of preparation on his part into a suspenseful, informative spy story. I love “his” mostly disparate “characters:” The whole lot of double crossers, their German and British handlers and everybody else at MI5 and 6. This is a helluvan example of a British-lead triumph when we all worked together to beat the bad guys using our brains, dedication and imagination. No drones for these guys! The British should set up something along the lines of the XX Committee to help ISIS devour itself. It seems like the only way to mostly get rid of our contemporary bad guys. There is a current commentator and author in the US who writes under his name and the XX Committee name who, I believe, has suggested the same. Get ISIS to self-immolate by nudging along a paranoid, hysterical bloodbath! ISIS demonstrates over and over that they want to kill and die. Let’s get it done.

Macintyre also refers to the idea the British tried to run and agent ”in an obviously bogus fashion” so the Germans would think them incompetent and also distract them from bigger fish. This is a theory presented by others about Ed Snowden. This theory should have legs but most don’t seem to care or they like Ed.

How good was the XX Committee? Every German agent in the UK during WWII was a double and these spies were financed by the Nazis themselves! Yay! The tricked Germans mostly died thinking they dominated the wartime intel coming from the UK. Those that figured out the truth claimed, bogusly, that they knew their spies were doubles all along. The Double Cross reports got into Hitler’s brain and prevented many, many deaths. The double agents even received Nazi military honors, including the Iron Cross. Hahaha….

Another twist: The Cambridge 5 provided Stalin with the whole true story of Double Cross in real time. Moscow was suspicious of the intel cuz they couldn’t believe the British were dumb enough to let former CP members into their government!

“The Double Cross idea had always been based on lateral thinking without boundaries, a willingness to contemplate plans that others would dismiss as unworkable or, frankly, barmy. Flights of fancy were integral to the system….” Yes! This! Now!

Wasteful, dangerous inter-service rivalries were present between MI5 and 6 just like between my country’s CIA and FBI before 9/11. I hope we’ve fixed that. Things seem better.

After studying the issue, how do I feel about interrogation? “’Violence is taboo.’ Not only does it produce answers to please, but it lowers the standard of information.’ A person in terror and pain will often tell their torturers what they imagine they want to hear….” Get Trump on the phone for me!

“The invasion of Normandy was a military sucker punch.” Delicious!

Hitler accepts the fake intel from the double crossers “with the sort of blind enthusiasm ideologues usually display on being told what they already believe.”

The “main thrust” of Operation Fortitude “was an undisputed, unalloyed, world-changing triumph.” Hip, hip, hurray! “Seven weeks after the first landings, four divisions were finally released from the Fifteenth (German) Army to head south, far too late.”

Being a successful, living, breathing spy is a really, really hard job.

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Oct 23, 2018 Scottnshana rated it really liked it

This book is certainly about history and espionage; but it is also certainly about management--both project and personnel. Macintyre goes off onto tangents--for example the British attempts to sabotage the German carrier pigeon network--but that only adds panache to this bizarre and quirky narrative on the campaign to deceive the Axis into dispersing their military units to places the Allies were NOT conducting amphibious landings. Someone really should write a screenplay, because there is no wa This book is certainly about history and espionage; but it is also certainly about management--both project and personnel. Macintyre goes off onto tangents--for example the British attempts to sabotage the German carrier pigeon network--but that only adds panache to this bizarre and quirky narrative on the campaign to deceive the Axis into dispersing their military units to places the Allies were NOT conducting amphibious landings. Someone really should write a screenplay, because there is no way to make these details and unusual personalities up out of thin air. The fact that British analysts were reading German encrypted ENIGMA transmissions provided a feedback loop that enabled MI6's leap from passing information from the Encyclopedia Britannica to deliberately misleading 'intelligence' to the Abwehr via their double agent network. Further, it developed "into a genuine system in which the misleading information from one double agent could be bolstered by all the others, an intricate, self-reinforcing structure that could 'fill the German files with what we want.'" That's a monumental management task in itself. These double agents, however, were not James Bond; in fact, many were genuine pains in the ass. Sometimes the greedy, horny, lazy, petulant, alcoholic and just plain weird are the human capital you get for a job, and Macintyre documents the extraordinary measures the handlers took to fulfill the strategic goals here. Exhibit A, from Chapter 15: "Britain was preparing for battle on an epic scale, and MI5 was seriously considering whether to deploy a navy submarine to fetch a small dog, illegally, in order to placate a volatile double agent." I thoroughly enjoyed this book. What engineers and self-declared managers may never grasp is the human variable in the tasks--one that demands the most control and care, and Macintyre deftly clarifies that. I am becoming a big ol' fan of this author. I read OPERATION MINCEMEAT in Iraq and have recently devoured his fine books on the SAS and Kim Philby. "Double Cross" is a fine addition to his body of work and I wholeheartedly recommend it. ...more

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Apr 02, 2013 Fran Hutton rated it liked it

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I have always loved real life survival stories, especially when dealing with WWII. This is a story about the Double Cross spies, upon whom the survival of many in WWII was depended. Their misinformation was known to have made it way to top Nazi eyes and ears, and the resulting sucess of the Normandy Invasion is evidence that the ruses employed was successful.

I read this book just after reading "In the Garden of Beasts.", second in my trilogy of WWII stories recently read. In this book, you know ...more

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Jun 06, 2014 Dick Reynolds rated it really liked it

It’s the summer of 1943 and Germany’s forces have taken over much of Europe. Tar Robertson of the British Security Service (aka MI5) is putting the finishing touches on a weapon that will tell a huge lie to Hitler. Robertson has collected a small and most unusual group of agents, characters who’ve established fake allegiance to Hitler and will act as British spies feeding false information back to Hitler’s own intelligence officers.
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Jun 16, 2015 Harold rated it really liked it

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This is the third Ben Macintyre spy saga I've read and all of them have been very very interesting. This one should be made into a mini-series - a movie would never be able to fit in as complex a plot contained herein.
This is an in depth study of the careers of five double agents in WWII. British intelligence completely ran the German intelligence into dead ends of misinformation. How they held it together, the depth of the deception, is remarkable. That they succeeded is partially their own doi ...more

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Sep 05, 2012 David rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Ben Macintyre's ability to write history books that are so entertaining and readable that it's hard to believe they aren't fiction is stunning.

When you consider the hours that he must have spent trawling through rather dry records to find the thread of the book, let alone cross checking details from other sources, and then pulling together a story that is not only thrilling, but also was a crucial part of D Day succeeding, I'm in awe.

His ability to humanise people is extraordinary, with the va ...more

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Oct 06, 2012 WB1 rated it it was ok

World War 2 espionage fascinates Ben Macintyre. A British writer who has discovered oddball characters and double-agents that are not so much out of Hitchcock but Mel Brooks.
In his newest work, Macintyre details the not-entirely believable story of a motley group of spies who deceived the Germans into believing that the D-Day invasion in 1944 would take place in Pas de Calais and not Normandy. The spies included a bisexual Peruvian playgirl, an eccentric Spaniard with a degree in chicken farm ...more

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Ben Macintyre is a writer-at-large for The Times (U.K.) and the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor, A Spy Among Friends, Double Cross, Operation Mincemeat, Agent Zigzag, and Rogue Heroes, among other books. Macintyre has also written and presented BBC documentaries of his work.

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