Publisher's Synopsis
Although it is usually seen as an unqualified success, the Battle for Normandy was actually a much more closely fought affair. In this book, the author and journalist Alex Gerlis explores whether it would have been won at all without the Allied deception operation. It was not until the 1970s that details began to emerge the Allies' top secret and audacious deception plan. Operation Fortitude succeeded in confusing the Germans about where the Allies were going to land: would it be Normandy, or the Pas de Calais?
