Agent Garbo
Agent Garbo "The book presses ever forward down a path of historical marvels and astonishing facts. But as Garbo, he turned in a masterpiece of deception that changed the course of World War II. The…
Specifikacia Agent Garbo
Agent Garbo
"The book presses ever forward down a path of historical marvels and astonishing facts. But as Garbo, he turned in a masterpiece of deception that changed the course of World War II. The effect is like a master class that's accessible to anyone, and Agent Garbo often reads as though it were written in a single, perfect draft."--The AtlanticBefore he remade himself as the master spy known as Garbo, Juan Pujol was nothing more than a Barcelona poultry farmer.
The scheme culminated on June 6, 1944, when Garbo convinced the Germans that the Allied forces approaching Normandy were just a feint--the real invasion would come at Calais. Posing as the Nazis' only reliable spy inside England, he created an imaginary million-man army, invented armadas out of thin air, and brought a vast network of fictional subagents to life. Because of his brilliant trickery, the Allies were