5/10/2023 0 Comments Double cross macintyreIf you enjoy learning about history, about war time and about the sometimes crazy characters and actions behind the scenes, “Double Cross” is a great book to listen to. The characters throughout the stories are interesting and very unique, and Lee does a good job of differentiating between narrative and quotation, giving appropriate accents so you can tell the characters apart, or at least the good guys apart from the Germans. While the Allies were securing their tenuous beachhead at Normandy, the Germans kept the bulk of their forces north of the Seine River, expecting the invasion’s main attack to arrive later in the Pas de Calais region. Read by John Lee, the 10-CD, 12-and-a-half-hour audiobook creates a very interesting narrative, particularly for anyone that happens to be a fan of history. Double Cross The True Story of the D-Day Spies By Ben Macintyre. Sample Book Insights: 1 Dusko Popov and Johann Johnny Jebsen were friends who met in 1936. The Double Cross spies were charged with the task of gaining the trust of the German spy network and acting as spies for them but actually being double agents for Britain fighting to keep the truth of the D-Day invasion a secret. Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Focusing mostly on five spies at the center of the Double Cross system – a Serbian playboy, a Polish fighter pilot, a bisexual Peruvian socialite and gambling girl, an eccentric Spaniard and a volatile Frenchwoman overly attached to her dog – Macintyre brings the true story of these characters and their secret, yet vitally important, battles during World War II.
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