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Strategic and Operational Deception in the Second World War (Paperback)
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Strategic and Operational Deception in the Second World War (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Intelligence
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New information obtained from the declassification of Ultra
intercepts and other Second World War documents as well as from
recent scholarly research has credited Allied deception operations
with an even more important contribution to winning the war than
was previously supposed. Yet deception is only one factor in the
achievement of victory; it cannot guarantee success. It must be
fully understood and exploited by the highest levels of command.
Most histories of deception operations during the Second World War
have focused on those that were successful. Instances in which
deception operations failed to achieve their objectives are
discussed by John Campbell, who describes an early attempt to
convince the Germans that the Allies intended to invade at Pas de
Calais in the summer of 1943, and by Katherine Herbig, who gives
the first detailed description of US deception operations in the
Pacific. Klaus-Jurgen Muller questions the actual effectiveness of
deception operations against the Germans. He argues that many
successes attributed to the Allies' use of deception were in fact
achieved by independent considerations on the German side.
Professor Muller builds a particularly strong case in challenging
the success of Operation Fortitude North, in which the Allies tried
to divert German troops to Norway before invading Normandy.
Although very little is known of Soviet deception operations on the
Eastern Front, it must be remembered that they were conducted on a
much larger scale than those of either the British in Europe or the
Americans in the Pacific. Colonel David Glantz's account of Soviet
deception and covert activities offers a version of the
historiography of the war between the USSRand Germany which may
explain some of the monumental German failures. Tom Cubbage not
only contributes a synthesis of the primary and secondary sources
available on the deception operations preceding Overlord, but also
reviews the so-called Hesketh Report - Fortitude: A History of
Strategic Deception in North Western Europe April 1943 to May 1945,
Colonel Roger Hesketh's official report on Allied deception
operations against the Germans in north-west Europe which was
declassified in 1976, yet remains unpublished. It indicates that
Professor Muller's suspicions that the Allies over-estimated the
impact of Fortitude are unfounded. Edited and with a comprehensive
introduction by Michael Handel, these important and original
studies put the entire deception effort during the Second World War
into a more balanced and accurate perspective.
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