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Diversion and Deception - Dudley Clarke's "A" Force and Allied Operations in World War II (Paperback)
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Diversion and Deception - Dudley Clarke's "A" Force and Allied Operations in World War II (Paperback)
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Among the operations known as Plan Bodyguard, the deception devised
to cover the Allies' Normandy landing, was the little known but
critical Plan Zeppelin, the largest and most complex of the
Bodyguard plans. Zeppelin, in conjunction with the Mediterranean
Strategy, succeeded in pinning down sixty German divisions from
southern France to the Balkans in time for D-Day. This was the work
of "A" Force, Britain's only military organization tasked with
carrying out both strategic and tactical deception in World War II.
Whitney T. Bendeck's Diversion and Deception finds "A" Force at its
finest hour, as the war shifted from North Africa to Europe.
Focusing on the years 1943 to 1945, Bendeck describes how "A"
Force, under the leadership of Dudley Clarke, orchestrated both
strategic and tactical deception plans to create notional threats
across the southern perimeter of Europe, with the chief objective
of keeping the Germans pinned down across the Mediterranean. Her
work offers a close and clarifying look at "A" Force's structure
and command, operations and methods, and successes and failures
and, consequently, its undeniable contribution to the Allies'
victory in World War II. By shining a light on the often overlooked
Mediterranean theater and its direct connection to European plans
and operations, Diversion and Deception also provides a deeper
understanding of Allied grand strategy in the war. Combining
military and deception histories-so often viewed in isolation-this
book provides context for the deceptions and adds a layer of
knowledge regarding the planning of military operations. The result
is a more complete and nuanced view of Allied operations than is to
be found in most histories of World War II.
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