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“Masterman’s account of the double-cross system is the definitive account and, although it’s written in quite a dry way, it’s absolutely thrilling.” Read more...
Ben Macintyre, Journalist
“It’s one of the great unsung victories of the Second World War. The double agents were used to convey a vast quantity of lies to the Germans. This network played a critical part in the run-up to D-Day by throwing huge amounts of disinformation which was swallowed more or less whole by the Germans.”
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
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The Flight of the Century
by Thomas Kessner
