A genius for deception: how cunning helped the British win two world wars
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| Item Description: | "First published in Great Britain as Churchill's wizards : the British genius for deception, 1914-1945 in 2008 by Faber and Faber"--Title page verso Includes bibliographical references and index List of Illustrations; Preface; PART I; PART II; Source Notes; Author's Note and Acknowledgements; Index In February 1942, intelligence officer Victor Jones erected 150 tents behind British lines in North Africa. "Hiding tanks in Bedouin tents was an old British trick," writes Nicholas Rankin; German general Erwin Rommel not only knew of the ploy, but had copied it himself. Jones knew that Rommel knew. In fact, he counted on it--for these tents were empty. With the deception that he was carrying out a deception, Jones made a weak point look like a trap. In A Genius for Deception, Rankin offers a lively and comprehensive history of how Britain bluffed, tricked, and spied its way to victory |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 466 pages, [8] pages of plates) |
| ISBN: | 0199739501 9780199739509 |
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