Reddit reviews Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies

And the Russians had spies at high levels in both the British government and military, but didn't truth their reports because the Kremlin assumed the spies were double agents. Interesting book called Double Cross tells all about it.

Great book on the topic if you haven't already read it: Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies.

It is also an excellent book by Ben Macintyre called Double Cross. I would recommend Macintyre's books to anyone who wants to read about espionage. They are all fascinating.

I also really enjoyed Double Cross. It has a good mix of first hand accounts pieced together from Allied records and some images from the program.

As with all of the WWII books I've read, it tends to overstate the importance of the unit in question (turned spies and the spy program in this case), but it really interesting as a whole.

Edit: Maybe overstate is the wrong word, but I've found that books and accounts from participants from WWII tend to state that the effort portrayed turned the tides. It's not that any of these books (Band of Brothers, Double Cross, Beyond The Call, others) are wrong, it's just that there were so many effective pieces in motion that it seems wrong to give weight to any one of them over the others.

For an extensive, yet easily digestible, background on the Allied deception operation that preceded D-Day, read Ben Macintyre's book Double Cross (https://www.amazon.com/Double-Cross-Story-D-Day-Spies/dp/0307888770/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1482957362&sr=8-2&keywords=double+cross).

Allied spies were able to essentially trick the Germans into thinking the invasion was going to be somewhere other that Normandy (primarily Calais) and then continue the deception DURING the beginning of the invasion, which kept German armored units from being sent to reinforce Normandy while Allied troops reinforced the beachhead. When the Allies got their foothold, it was over for the Germans.

The British controlled every single German spy in the UK for years leading up to the invasion. The Germans were fed rubbish.

He was a part of the XX Counter Espionage division working for the Allies. By D-Day, literally every German "spy" in Britain was actually a double agent working for the Allies. They actually played a huge role in duping the Germans into taking their attention off of Normandy for the D-Day invasions.

Read the book Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies for more crazy stories. Plays out almost like a wartime Ocean's Eleven.

http://www.amazon.com/Double-Cross-Story-D-Day-Spies/dp/0307888770

There was a brilliant book written about the Double-Cross system that anyone with an interest in that sort of thing should read.

If this kind of thing interests you, read Double Cross by Ben Macintyre.

I found it to be a very interesting book about the espionage efforts in Europe.

Are you reading "A Spy Among Friends" by Ben Macintyre? His last book, Double Cross is a fascinating, compulsively readable history of the British double agent system developed and run by MI5 during WWII. Philby makes several appearances throughout the story.

I'd also recommend Spycatcher by Peter Wright, former assistant director of MI5, which details his career as a counterespionage operative in Post-War England. It was famously suppressed by the Thatcher administration upon initial release due to the fact that it named names and embarrassed many senior members of the British Intelligence services.