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Churchill's Wizards

2009 Deception (Military science)
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Release : 2009
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Book Synopsis Churchill's Wizards by : Nicholas Rankin

Download or read book Churchill's Wizards written by Nicholas Rankin. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real story of how Winston Churchill and the British mastered deception to defeat the Nazis - by conning the Kaiser, hoaxing Hitler and using brains to outwit brawn. By June 1940, most of Europe had fallen to the Nazis and Britain stood alone. So, with Winston Churchill in charge the British bluffed their way out of trouble, drawing on the trickery which had helped them win the First World War. They broadcast outrageous British propaganda on pretend German radio stations, broke German secret codes and eavesdropped on their messages. Every German spy in Britain was captured and many were used to send back false information to their controllers. Forged documents misled their intelligence. Bogus wireless traffic from entire phantom armies, dummy airfields with model planes, disguised ships and inflatable rubber tanks created a vital illusion of strength. Culminating in the spectacular misdirection that was so essential to the success of D-Day in 1944, Churchill's Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914-1945 is a thrilling work of popular military history filled with almost unbelievable stories of bravery, creativity and deception. Nicholas Rankin is the author of Dead Man's Chest, Telegram From Guernica and Ian Fleming's Commandos. 'This is a story clamouring to be told. We could not have imagined the scope of the inventiveness, the daring of these people's imaginations . . . I could not stop reading this book.' Doris Lessing

A Genius for Deception

2009-11-10 History
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Release : 2009-11-10
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis A Genius for Deception by : Nicholas Rankin

Download or read book A Genius for Deception written by Nicholas Rankin. This book was released on 2009-11-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 1942, intelligence officer Victor Jones erected 150 tents behind British lines in North Africa. "Hiding tanks in Bedouin tents was an old British trick," writes Nicholas Rankin. German general Erwin Rommel not only knew of the ploy, but had copied it himself. Jones knew that Rommel knew. In fact, he counted on it--for these tents were empty. With the deception that he was carrying out a deception, Jones made a weak point look like a trap. In A Genius for Deception, Nicholas Rankin offers a lively and comprehensive history of how Britain bluffed, tricked, and spied its way to victory in two world wars. As Rankin shows, a coherent program of strategic deception emerged in World War I, resting on the pillars of camouflage, propaganda, secret intelligence, and special forces. All forms of deception found an avid sponsor in Winston Churchill, who carried his enthusiasm for deceiving the enemy into World War II. Rankin vividly recounts such little-known episodes as the invention of camouflage by two French artist-soldiers, the creation of dummy airfields for the Germans to bomb during the Blitz, and the fabrication of an army that would supposedly invade Greece. Strategic deception would be key to a number of WWII battles, culminating in the massive misdirection that proved critical to the success of the D-Day invasion in 1944. Deeply researched and written with an eye for telling detail, A Genius for Deception shows how the British used craft and cunning to help win the most devastating wars in human history.

Ian Fleming's Commandos

2011-10-07 History
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Release : 2011-10-07
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 822/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Ian Fleming's Commandos by : Nicholas Rankin

Download or read book Ian Fleming's Commandos written by Nicholas Rankin. This book was released on 2011-10-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rankin tells the story of a secret intelligence outfit conceived and organized by Ian Fleming during World War II, named "30 Assault Unit", a group who was expected to seize enemy codebooks, cipher machines, and documents in high-stakes operations, and which inspired his creation of the James Bond character.

Winston Churchill's Toyshop

2010-02-15 History
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Release : 2010-02-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 299/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Winston Churchill's Toyshop by : Stuart MacRae

Download or read book Winston Churchill's Toyshop written by Stuart MacRae. This book was released on 2010-02-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Churchill's personal weapons development department, staffed by ingenious boffins, who developed numerous innovative weapons that helped win the war.

Wizards

2007 Magic
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Release : 2007
Genre : Magic
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Book Rating : 276/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Wizards by : P. G. Maxwell-Stuart

Download or read book Wizards written by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: P.G. Maxwell-Stuart's history of the wizard from ancient times to the present shows just how extraordinary a character the wizard has proved to be - not merely a conjuring trickster or malicious egotist in league with Satan, but also a deeply religious person intent on using magic the better to understand the mind of God.

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