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Ben Macintyre
About
The leading popular historian of wartime intelligence. His accounts of Operation Mincemeat, the Double Cross system, and Allied deception are built on declassified MI5 files.
Books in Database (4)
Agent Zigzag 2007 · 364 pages
Popular History Eddie Chapman — safecracker, womaniser, and double agent — fakes sabotage for the Germans while working for MI5.
Operation Mincemeat 2010 · 400 pages
Popular History British intelligence floats a corpse with fake invasion plans to convince Hitler that Sicily was a feint.
Double Cross 2012 · 416 pages
Popular History The D-Day spies: how every German agent in Britain was turned, and an imaginary army aimed at Calais.
SAS: Rogue Heroes 2016 · 380 pages
Popular History The authorized history of the SAS — misfits and poets blowing up airfields behind Rommel's lines.