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Ben Macintyre

UK · WWII espionage and deception

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 cover
Agent Zigzag 2007 · 364 pages

Eddie Chapman — safecracker, womaniser, and double agent — fakes sabotage for the Germans while working for MI5.

Popular History
Operation Mincemeat cover
Operation Mincemeat 2010 · 400 pages

British intelligence floats a corpse with fake invasion plans to convince Hitler that Sicily was a feint.

Popular History
Double Cross cover
Double Cross 2012 · 416 pages

The D-Day spies: how every German agent in Britain was turned, and an imaginary army aimed at Calais.

Popular History
SAS: Rogue Heroes cover
SAS: Rogue Heroes 2016 · 380 pages

The authorized history of the SAS — misfits and poets blowing up airfields behind Rommel's lines.

Popular History

Events Covered

1940 North Africa Campaign 1943 Italian Campaign 1944 D-Day / Normandy Landings