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Lyons Press [Published Date: 2012]. Hardcover, 268 pp. First Lyons Press edition, (with full number line). Good+ in good+ dust jacket. Black Paper over Boards with tan letter on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Faint remainder mark on bottom of text block (faint yellow highlighter mark). Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a 4' closed tear along the hinge of front cover (which is undettectable). light overall scuffing to jacket as well. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. Includes a 6-page section with illustrations. [From Publisher] Operation Fortitude tells the thrilling tale of an ingenious deception that changed the course of the Second World War. The story is one of intrigue, drama, and good fortune, practically a Hollywood script. It is the tale of double agents, fake radio transmissions and dummy invasion craft. The success of D-Day was made possible by the efforts of people who were not even present on the Normandy Beaches. General Patton spent D-Day on British shores commanding a phantom army. Spanish double-agent GARBO sent messages relaying supposed intelligence from his fictitious spy network, fooling the Nazis right up until the end of the war. Even as the Normandy landings were happening, Hitler remained convinced they were a diversionary tactic to force him to move his troops. So, thanks to Fortitude, D-Day was a triumph; without it the war might well have had a very different outcome.