D-day Deception: Operation Fortitude and the Normandy Invasion

by Mary Kathryn Barbier (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2007

  $79.85

  On 6 June 1944, Allied forces stormed the beaches at Normandy. This book re-examines the sources, and suggests that other factors contributed as much, if not more, to the Allied victory in Normandy and, that Allied forces could have succeeded without the elaborate deception of Operation Fortitude.

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $26.62

  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. Fortitude South--largely through a fictitious army group under Gen. George S. Patton--indicated that Allied forces would come ashore in the Pas de Calais rather than Normandy. Barbier sheds new light on this story of double agents and phantom units while reassessing the importance of Operation Fortitude.