D-Day Deception: Operation Fortitude and the Normandy Invasion (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811735346)

Before landing in France on D-Day, June 6, 1944, the Allies executed an elaborate deception plan designed to prevent the Germans from concentrating forces in Normandy. The lesser-known first part, Fortitude North, suggested a threat to Norway. The more famous Fortitude South indicated that the invasion would occur at the Pas de Calais rather than Normandy, largely by creating a fictitious army group under Gen. George S. Patton. While historians have generally praised Operation Fortitude, Barbier takes a more nuanced view, arguing that the deception, while implemented well, affected the invasion's outcome only minimally.

A much-needed reassessment of the deception operation that preceded the Allied invasion of Europe in World War II

Involves double agents, fake equipment, phantom units, and famous commanders

Author: Mary Kathryn Barbier
ISBN-10: 0811735346
ISBN-13: 9780811735346
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Language: English
Published: 03/04/2009
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d