Hoodwinking Hitler: The Normandy Deception
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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. Review: Reads like fiction - There was a lot behind the Normandy invasion and how it all came together than you would realize. So many mis-steps, espionage, mistakes, crazy mis-communication all hard to believe. We think of the Normandy invasion as the allies invading the northern coast of France but it was much more than that. Review: Must read! - Detailed and addicting!! I couldn’t put it down!
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| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 Reviews |
N**A
Reads like fiction
There was a lot behind the Normandy invasion and how it all came together than you would realize. So many mis-steps, espionage, mistakes, crazy mis-communication all hard to believe. We think of the Normandy invasion as the allies invading the northern coast of France but it was much more than that.
S**P
Must read!
Detailed and addicting!! I couldn’t put it down!
T**M
Three Stars
Very interesting back story.
J**L
BEST READING BECAUSE OF THE DETAIL
I was familiar with the information in this book, mostly by way of GARBO the double agent, but not all to this extent....BEST READING BECAUSE OF THE DETAIL...JWS
D**S
Simply excellent!
Very well written with a plethora of little-known facts. Breuer uses small chapters constructing the big view of the D-Day deception operations in a fascinating way, making the book to be read like a thriller. No major mistakes are included in the military aspects of the subject (like the commanding officers, the allied and german orders of battle etc.) while a lot of interesting information is presented in a marvellous way. Especially enjoyable are the many interesting details of the personalities involved.
R**R
Excellent Overview of Historical Deception/OPSEC
Excellent overview of the complexities and nuance involved in the design and execution of large scale deception campaigns and the associated operations security challenges. While some will quibble with regards to artistic license and prose, and while there are a few instances where there is evidence that the author has gotten it not quite right, the book does an excellent job of familiarizing the reader with the primary effort to hide the place and nature of the Normandy landings. He also places this operation in the context of the larger war effort in Europe.
M**E
purely fictional entertainment
This book is just another attempt at selling interesting sounding ,far-fetched assertations.They are many gross mistakes not only in the text,but also in the illustration captions.For instance,one of his captions claims that hitler predicted the Normandy landing at Pas decalais,instead of Normandy.The fact is hitler did indead predict Normandy,while others did not share in his view.Also,a Skorzeny attempt at killing Roosevelt.Hoodwinking hitler makes a great fictional novel based on real people,but it's research and historical accuracy lack.
U**M
Three Stars
Readable - but do not describe the whole picture of the secret game Before Overlord.
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