A Chicken Farmer Spy Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day

Re:A Chicken Farmer Spy Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day by kiith_naabal on Thursday July 26, 2018 @03:01AM (#17615569)

I find the incredibly involved deception of WWII fascinating. See also Operation Mincemeat[0], where the British Army dressed the corpse of a Welsh homeless person as an officer of the Royal Marines, gave it a number of fake documents, and dumped it in the ocean off Spain to deceive the Germans about the invasion of Sicily.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat

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Re:A Chicken Farmer Spy Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day by emmelaich on Thursday July 26, 2018 @05:52AM (#17616236)

You might like this book: Deception in War by Jon Latimer

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jon-latimer/decep...

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Re:A Chicken Farmer Spy Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day by sahn44 on Thursday July 26, 2018 @03:21PM (#17620161)

Or this one: "Bodyguard of Lies: The Extraordinary True Story Behind D-Day" by Anthony Cave Brown. Still my all time favorite WWII book.

https://www.amazon.com/Bodyguard-Lies-Extraordinary-Story-Be...

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Re:A Chicken Farmer Spy Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day by NeedMoreTea on Thursday July 26, 2018 @05:31PM (#17621401)

Pretty sure that's the book I read decades ago that turned me into a history buff, especially of WW2. One of many dad brought home from the library.

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