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Howard, Michael, - STRATEGIC DECEPTION IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

Title: STRATEGIC DECEPTION IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
Description: Pimlico, London, 1992, paperback, [xiv], 271pp, 4pp maps, large format (9 x 6" approx.), coloured pictorial upper wrapper, originally published by HMSO as volume 5 of the 'Official History of British Intelligence in the Second World War', the author explains how a successful combination of security and intelligence made it possible to deceive the German High Command as to the strategic intentions of the Allies and make them greatly overestimate the resources at their disposal, describing the work of the Twenty Committee and the double-cross system, slight slant to spine, a little rubbed and bumped at extrems., light diagional creasing to wrappers and corners inclined to curl, good reading copy,

Keywords: war ww2 intelligence deception garbo security twenty xx committee double cross vf45

Price: GBP 8.50 = appr. US$ 12.14 Seller: A Book for all Reasons
- Book number: 40050

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