Ben Macintyre is back. Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies is the last instalment in his trilogy about British espionage in World War Two, following the hugely successful Agent Zig-Zag and Operation Mincemeat.
In Double Cross, Macintrye tells of how a cabal of eccentric double agents hoodwinked the Nazis into believing that the allied invasion of Europe would come through Norway or the Pays de Calais. Or that is the narrative he presents in his uniquely compelling and humorous style. Here is what reviewers have made of it so far.
Sir Max Hastings was ecstatic, but not uncritical, in the Sunday Times (£):
‘I quibble with this book’s subtitle The True Story of the D-Day Spies. When addressing characters with avowed multiple loyalties, not least to themselves, and heavily dependent on their own testimony for evidence about their behaviour, we can never be confident of truth… I have seldom enjoyed a spy story more than this one, and fiction will make dreary reading hereafter.
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