Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hi

Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hi

Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hi

Editorial: Houghton Mifflin Company Trade

Pàgines: 320

Any: 2012

EAN: 9780547614816

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Agent Garbo tells the astonishing story of a self-made secret agent who matched wits with the best minds of the Third Reich - and won. Juan Pujol was a nobody, a Barcelona poultry farmer determined to oppose the Nazis. Using only his gift for daring falsehoods, Pujol became Germanys most valued agent - or double agent: it took four tries before the British believed he was really on the Allies side.
In the guise of Garbo, Pujol turned in a masterpiece of deception worthy of his big-screen namesake. He created an imaginary million-man army, invented armadas out of thin air, and brought a vast network of fictional subagents whirring to life. His unwitting German handlers believed every word, and banked on Garbos lies as their only source of espionage within Great Britain.
For his greatest performance, Pujol had to convince the German High Command that the D-Day invasion of Normandy was a feint and the real attack was aimed at Calais. The Nazis bought it, turning the tide of battle at the crucial moment.
Based on years of archival research and interviews with Pujols family, Agent Garbo is a true-life thriller set in the shadow world of espionage and deception.
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