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The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
July 2012
On Sale: July 3, 2012
320 pages
ISBN: 0547614810
EAN: 9780547614816
Kindle: B007QV00LA
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Non-Fiction Biography
Were the D-Day landings saved from failure because of a lone
secret agent? 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
Germany’s 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 Garbo’s 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
Pujol’s family, Agent Garbo is a true-life thriller
set in the shadow world of espionage and deception.
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