D-Day Deception: Operation Fortitude and the Normandy Invasion (Stackpole Military History Series) - Softcover

Barbier, Mary Kathryn

 
9780811735346: D-Day Deception: Operation Fortitude and the Normandy Invasion (Stackpole Military History Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0811735346 ISBN 13: 9780811735346
Verlag: Stackpole Books, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Before landing in France on D-Day, June 6, 1944, the Allies executed an elaborate deception plan designed to prevent the Germans from concentrating forces in Normandy. The lesser-known first part, Fortitude North, suggested a threat to Norway. The more famous Fortitude South indicated that the invasion would occur at the Pas de Calais rather than Normandy, largely by creating a fictitious army group under Gen. George S. Patton. While historians have generally praised Operation Fortitude, Barbier takes a more nuanced view, arguing that the deception, while implemented well, affected the invasion's outcome only minimally.

  • A much-needed reassessment of the deception operation that preceded the Allied invasion of Europe in World War II
  • Involves double agents, fake equipment, phantom units, and famous commanders

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    Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

    Mary Kathryn Barbier is a professor of history at Mississippi State University, where she teaches American history, military history, and grand strategy. She is also the author of Kursk (978-0-7603-1254-4) and coauthor of Strategy and Tactics (978-0-7603-1401-2).

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    Verlag
    Stackpole Books
    Erscheinungsdatum
    2009
    Sprache
    Englisch
    ISBN 10 
    0811735346
    ISBN 13 
    9780811735346
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    Taschenbuch
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    288
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