Ewen Montagu: 2 books
The Man Who Never Was
World War II's Boldest Counterintelligence Operation
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
As plans got under way for the Allied invasion of Sicily in June 1943, British counter-intelligence agent Ewen Montagu masterminded a scheme to mislead the Germans into thinking the next landing would occur in Greece. The innovative plot was so successful that the Germans moved some of their forces...
Operation Heartbreak
The Man Who Never Was
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
In the early hours of 30 April 1943, a corpse, wearing the uniform of an officer in the Royal Marines, was slipped into the waters off the south-west coast of Spain. With it was a briefcase, in which were papers detailing an imminent Allied invasion of Greece. As the British had anticipated, the supposedly...