Double Cross: The True Story of The D-Day Spies

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I see this book as the last in the series, purely because it was the last for so long, and Crossfire is set so long after the original four. Left to their own devices, the Germans had no idea what was going on and were obliged to spread ever thinner forces across dozens of possible invasion locations from Norway to the Pyrenees. Despite the huge scope of the story, this reads as a much tighter book than Macintyre's Operation Mincemeat.

The story of D-Day - when 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy - as it's never been told before. Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition.These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

In 2005 Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her distinguished contribution to the world of children's books. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The network consisted of scores of informers, agents, and subagents, but ultimately the Interallié was the creation of one spy, a man to whom conspiracy and subterfuge were second nature, who regarded espionage as a vocation. In style, his clothes still rivalled Eden’s, but his blond hair was no longer so closely trimmed and he had a neglected moustache, reddened by tobacco.

Macintyre's early books about espionage in World War II have been bestsellers, and this will be no exception. The reader is introduced to a bizarre group of oddballs – some genuinely heroic, some venal, some quite boring – who become entangled in these schemes. It was easy to mix up their names and code names at the start of the book, but was no longer a problem by the middle of the book. The dummy spearhead of a handful of ships was then sent steaming towards France – but as it turned out the Germans had completely failed to be alerted by all this British trickery and did not react in any way at all. It was probably the most fast-paced book in the series and I flew through it quicker than any of the others.