![]() The aim was to fool the Germans into thinking that the army was building up in the east, indicating that the invasion would come across the narrow part of the channel at Calais. It was created only to be photographed from the air by German reconnaissance planes. The Allies created an entire phoney army in East Anglia, including inflatable tanks, cardboard Spitfires and barracks with roofs but no walls. In particular, there was a fascinating, amusing and very elaborate deception for the D-Day Invasion. One was Bodyguard of Lies by Anthony Cave Brown, about how the Allies deceived the Germans into deploying their resources in the wrong places. ![]() ![]() I read a number of nonfiction books about intelligence and espionage in World War Two. A lot of wartime secrets came out in the mid-Seventies. ![]()
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