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Churchill's Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914–1945
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Author
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Nicholas Rankin.
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Publisher
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Faber & Faber
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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9.5
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6.25
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1.75
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ISBN
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9780571221950
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Pages/Publication Date
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466/2008
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Daedalus Item Code
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22522
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Description
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In the trench fighting and desert battles of the First World War, British writers, artists, and illusionists had become so proficient with subtle propaganda and elaborate camouflage that, after the war, the Germans complained that they hadn't been beaten fairly. In World War II, when Britain stood alone against the Nazis, this expertise in deception was employed in an all-out psychological attack. The author of Dead Man's Chest and Telegram from Guernica gives us a detailed and enthusiastic history of fake transmissions and documents, model planes in phony airfields, disguised ships, inflatable tanks, misinformation sent back with known spies, and broadcasting from bogus German radio stations, culminating in the spectacular misdirections that were crucial to the D-Day landings in 1944. "There isn't a dull page—not even a dull sentence—in Nicholas Rankin's fantastic wunderkabinet of wartime revelations. It is all here—colonels in drag, midget submarines, corpses with stashed secrets, a black radio station called Aspidistra and more inventions than James Bond's Q could ever conceive—and is endlessly fascinating in consequence. No better book about the mad arcana of belligerence has ever been written."—Simon Winchester
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