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The Deceivers:

Allied Military Deception in the Second World War
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Simon and Schuster, May 11, 2010 - History - 1168 pages
In World War II, the Allies employed unprecedented methods and practiced the most successful military deception ever seen, meticulously feeding misinformation to Axis intelligence to lead Axis commanders into erroneous action. Thaddeus Holt's elegantly written and comprehensive book is the first to tell the full story behind these operations. Exactly how the Allies engaged in strategic deception has remained secret for decades. Now, with the help of newly declassified material, Holt reveals this secret to the world in a riveting work of historical scholarship.

Once the Americans joined the war in 1941, they had much to learn from their British counterparts, who had been honing their deception skills for years. As the war progressed, the British took charge of misinformation efforts in the European theater, while the Americans focused on the Pacific. The Deceivers takes readers from the early British achievements in the Middle East and Europe at the beginning of the war to the massive Allied success of D-Day, American victory in the Pacific theater, and the war's culmination on the brink of an invasion of Japan.

Colonel John Bevan, who managed British deception operations from London, described the three essentials to strategic deception as good plans, double agents, and codebreaking, and The Deceivers covers each of these aspects in minute detail. Holt brings to life the little-known men, British and American, who ran Allied deception, such as Bevan, Dudley Clarke, Peter Fleming, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Newman Smith. He tracks the development of deception techniques and tells the hitherto unknown story of double agent management and other deception through the American FBI and Joint Security Control.

Full of fascinating sources and astounding revelations, The Deceivers is an indispensable volume and an unparalleled contribution to World War II literature.

  

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Oh dear. I have not abandoned a book in quite a while, but it had to happen sometime- and on one of my favorite subjects, no less. This book is LONG and BORING. Put off by the dizzying alphabet soup ... Read full review

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Interesting and sometimes funny, but also massive, not entirely what I was hoping for and overdue to be returned to the library. Read full review

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Contents

Prologue 18621940
1
The Master of the Game
9
The Art of Deception
52
Brigadier Dudley W Clarke C B C B E frontispiece
77
The Customers
99
Most Secret Sources and Special Means
125
London Control
166
John Bevan
183
American Deception Grows Up
431
E P Schrup
433
Bodyguard
477
Ralph Ingersoll
482
William Harris
503
Quicksilver
521
H Wentworth Eldredge
525
The Success of Fortitude 568569
568

The London Controlling Section
203
The Turning of the Tide
215
Enter the Yanks
246
Carl Goldbranson
253
William Baumer
277
Hustling the East I
289
Peter Fleming
291
Ormonde Hunter
315
The Soft Underbelly
328
David Strangeways
334
Arne Ekstrom
342
Harold BurrisMeyer
348
George Train
355
Hustling the East II
395
Mediterranean Finale
592
Eugene Sweeney
593
A Force
609
Last Act in Europe
629
Hustling the East III
668
The Young Ladies Seminary
670
Bluebird
704
Last Round in Asia
746
Epilogue
779
Allied Deception Operations
807
Special Means Channels
845
The Phantom Armies
897
Maps
935
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About the author (2010)

Thaddeus Holt is a lawyer, focusing primarily on litigation and administrative law. He served as Deputy Under Secretary of the Army from 1965 to 1967. His articles and book reviews have appeared in MHQ, The New York Times, The Journal of Military History, Virginia Quarterly Review, and various anthologies. He lives in Alabama.

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TitleThe Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War
AuthorThaddeus Holt
PublisherSimon and Schuster, 2010
ISBN1439103887, 9781439103883
Length1168 pages
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History / Military / General
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