Bodyguard of Lies

Bodyguard of Lies by Anthony Cave Brown. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780553010640.

The never-before-told story of allied espionage in World War II. The hidden war of spies, code-breakers and double-agents. The secrets of the greatest clandestine operation in history. The phantom army in Kent that fooled the Germans. How Churchills cunning protected the Ultra Code. The second man who never was - a corpse washed ashore with false invasion plans. How Rommel at El Alamein was deceived by planted documents and spurious troop movements. How phony docks and fake fleets showed up on German radar screens as ships and aircraft in battle formation. The actor who impersonated General Montgomery to delude the Germans and reinforce the theory of a Mediterranean landing. How General Wavell intimidated Italian forces in Libya with a brigade of ferocious inflated rubber tanks, Top-secret stories of plot and counterplot, lies and subversion, treasury and intrigue, revealed for the first time in this truly extraordinary bestseller,