D-Day 6 June 1944 the turning point of the Second World War was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of deceit aimed at convincing the Nazis that Calais & Norway not Normandy were the targets of the 150 000-strong invasion force. The deception involved every branch of Allied wartime intelligence: the Bletchley Park code-breakers MI5 MI6 SOE Scientific Intelligence the FBI & the French Resistance. But at its heart was the Double Cross System a team of double agents controlled by the secret Twenty Committee so named because twenty in Roman numerals forms a double cross. The key D-Day spies were just five in number & one of the oddest military units ever assembled: a bisexual Peruvian playgirl a tiny Polish fighter pilot a Serbian seducer a wildly imaginative Spaniard with a diploma in chicken farming & a hysterical Frenchwoman whose obsessive love for her pet dog very nearly wrecked the entire deception. Their enterprise was saved from catastrophe by a shadowy sixth spy whose heroic sacrifice is here revealed for the first time. Under the direction of an eccentric but brilliant intelligence officer in tartan trousers working from a smoky lair in St Jamess these spies would weave a web of deception so intricate that it ensnared Hitlers army & helped to carry thousands of troops across the Channel in safety. These double agents were variously brave treacherous fickle greedy & inspired. They were not conventional warriors but their masterpiece of deceit saved countless lives. Their codenames were Bronx Brutus Treasure Tricycle & Garbo. This is their story. See Judys Review See Richards Review Download A Sample Chapter Of Double Cross Read about the Author Exclusive Bonus Content Write a Review for Double Cross Judys Review I was both captivated & taken aback by Double Cross. Captivated by the sheer colourfulness & eccentricities of the small team of foreign double agents so carefully assembled by British spymasters; taken aback by their courage & determination in the face of a dangerous enemy
- an enemy who if the deception was discovered would deliver a ferocious rebuke. The shadow of torture & execution hovered close. There were only five D-Day spies & they were a strange bunch
- a bisexual Peruvian playgirl a tiny Polish fighter pilot a Serbian playboy a Spanish chicken farmer with an out-of-control imagination & a highly-strung Frenchwoman whose bizarre obsession with her pet dog almost capsized the whole enterprise. Macintyre is clearly very fond of them & as we are introduced into his undercover freak show we take them to our hearts as well. They were far from perfect human beings
- most were blatantly on the make happy to pocket wages from both sides; they could be two-faced sulky & infuriating
- but they were the beating heart of the most crucial intelligence operation of the"



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D-Day 6 June 1944 the turning point of the Second World War was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of deceit... At the heart of the deception was the ' Double Cross System' a team of double agents whose bravery treachery greed & inspiration succeeded in convincing the Nazis that Calais & Norway not Normandy were the targets of the 150 000-strong Allied invasion force. These were not conventional warriors but their masterpiece of deceit saved thousands of lives. Their codenames were Bronx Brutus Treasure Tricycle & Garbo. This is their story. ...

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A special bumper edition of dorkiness featuring the first two books in the bestselling DORK DIARIES series! Nikki Maxwell has just started at her new school & is determined to make a fresh start leaving her dorky past behind her. But when you're the girl who spills spaghetti over herself during lunch or who dresses as a giant rat for Halloween or whose dad drives a van with a giant cockroach on the roof it's hard to transform from loser queen to queen-bee overnight. But one thing's for sure Nikki's life is never dull & now you can enjoy the first two hilarious instalments of her diary in this fabulous two-in-one bind-up. It's time to embrace your inner dork... ...

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What price do you pay for prizing success over love? Love me love my game says twenty-three year-old Willy Novinsky. Ever since she picked up a racquet at the age of four tennis has been Willys one love until the day she meets Eric Oberdorf. Shes a middle-ranked professional tennis player & hes a Princeton graduate who took up playing tennis at the age of eighteen. Low-ranked but untested Eric too aims to make his mark on the international tennis circuit. But as Erics ranking climbs rivalry turns to resentment & Willy risks losing everything. ...

Ooh money money money " sang Fudge. "I love money money money!" Pete's little brother Fudge has a new obsession. He's mad about money & he wants loads of it. In fact he's going to print a hundred million trillion ' Fudge Bucks' & buy the whole world. Or maybe he'll just settle for buying the capital city of America & call it Fudgington. He's driving Pete nuts. Will Fudge ever stop being the most embarrassing brother on the planet?" ...

The Double Game is not just a spy novel
- its a love letter to the genre...cleverly woven into a thrilling story. Brilliantly executed
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