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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780544035010
- Book Title
- Agent Garbo : the Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- True Crime, History
- Topic
- Military / World War II, Europe / Germany, Espionage, Europe / Spain & Portugal
- Item Weight
- 10 oz
- Item Width
- 5.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0544035011
ISBN-13
9780544035010
eBay Product ID (ePID)
144800226
Product Key Features
Book Title
Agent Garbo : the Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War II, Europe / Germany, Espionage, Europe / Spain & Portugal
Publication Year
2013
Genre
True Crime, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
10 oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"The exciting, improbable adventures of a young Spanish spy who managed to become Britaine(tm)s most effective tool in deceiving Hitler. A lively, rollicking good read." e" Kirkus Reviews "Epic intelligence coups of WWII unreel in this colorful caper saga. Taltye(tm)s Pujol is a captivating character with a talent for operatic confabulation, but Garbo is just the alluring lead in massive deceptions that the author likens to Hollywood productions, complete with rubber tanks, fake ships, and a Montgomery impersonator. The result is a rollicking story of wartime eccentrics and their labyrinthine mind games." e" Publishers Weekly , starred "Agent Garbo is the fascinating story of a man whose wit, cunning, and steely nerves made the Allied victory possible in World War II. Stephan Talty's unsurpassed research brings forth one of the war's greatest agents in a must-read book for those who think they know all the great World War II stories." e"Gregory Freeman, author of The Forgotten 500, "The exciting, improbable adventures of a young Spanish spy who managed to become Britain's most effective tool in deceiving Hitler. A lively, rollicking good read." -- Kirkus Reviews "Epic intelligence coups of WWII unreel in this colorful caper saga. Talty's Pujol is a captivating character with a talent for operatic confabulation, but Garbo is just the alluring lead in massive deceptions that the author likens to Hollywood productions, complete with rubber tanks, fake ships, and a Montgomery impersonator. The result is a rollicking story of wartime eccentrics and their labyrinthine mind games." -- Publishers Weekly , starred "Agent Garbo is the fascinating story of a man whose wit, cunning, and steely nerves made the Allied victory possible in World War II. Stephan Talty's unsurpassed research brings forth one of the war's greatest agents in a must-read book for those who think they know all the great World War II stories." --Gregory Freeman, author of The Forgotten 500, "The exciting, improbable adventures of a young Spanish spy who managed to become Britain's most effective tool in deceiving Hitler. A lively, rollicking good read." - Kirkus Reviews "Epic intelligence coups of WWII unreel in this colorful caper saga. Talty's Pujol is a captivating character with a talent for operatic confabulation, but Garbo is just the alluring lead in massive deceptions that the author likens to Hollywood productions, complete with rubber tanks, fake ships, and a Montgomery impersonator. The result is a rollicking story of wartime eccentrics and their labyrinthine mind games." - Publishers Weekly , starred"Agent Garbo is the fascinating story of a man whose wit, cunning, and steely nerves made the Allied victory possible in World War II. Stephan Talty's unsurpassed research brings forth one of the war's greatest agents in a must-read book for those who think they know all the great World War II stories." -Gregory Freeman, author of The Forgotten 500, "The exciting, improbable adventures of a young Spanish spy who managed to become Britain's most effective tool in deceiving Hitler. A lively, rollicking good read." - Kirkus Reviews "Epic intelligence coups of WWII unreel in this colorful caper saga. Talty's Pujol is a captivating character with a talent for operatic confabulation, but Garbo is just the alluring lead in massive deceptions that the author likens to Hollywood productions, complete with rubber tanks, fake ships, and a Montgomery impersonator. The result is a rollicking story of wartime eccentrics and their labyrinthine mind games." - Publishers Weekly , starred "Agent Garbo is the fascinating story of a man whose wit, cunning, and steely nerves made the Allied victory possible in World War II. Stephan Talty's unsurpassed research brings forth one of the war's greatest agents in a must-read book for those who think they know all the great World War II stories." -Gregory Freeman, author of The Forgotten 500
Dewey Decimal
940.54/8641092
Table Of Content
Cast of Charactersvii Introductionix PART I: THE MAKING OF A SPY 1. Tom Mix in Barcelona3 2. The Training Ground11 3. Araceli22 4. The White City35 5. The Game43 6. The Snakepit55 PART II: GARBO'S RISE 7. A Fresh Riot of Ideas65 8. The System81 9. The Debut91 10. The Blacks and the Santa Clauses98 11. The Rehearsal109 PART III: THE FAR SHORE 12. The Dry Run123 13. An Intimate Deception132 14. Haywire141 15. The Interloper153 16. The Ghost Army167 17. The Backdrop174 18. The Buildup186 19. The Prisoner197 20. The Hours207 21. The Weapon223 PART IV: BREAKOFF 22. The End235 23. The Return241 Appendix A: Organizations253 Appendix B: The Garbo Network255 Notes257 Bibliography281 Acknowledgments285 Index287
Synopsis
"The book presses ever forward down a path of historical marvels and astonishing facts. The effect is like a master class that's accessible to anyone, and Agent Garbo often reads as though it were written in a single, perfect draft."-- The Atlantic Before he remade himself as the master spy known as Garbo, Juan Pujol was nothing more than a Barcelona poultry farmer. But as Garbo, he turned in a masterpiece of deception that changed the course of World War II. Posing as the Nazis' only reliable spy inside England, he created an imaginary million-man army, invented armadas out of thin air, and brought a vast network of fictional subagents to life. The scheme culminated on June 6, 1944, when Garbo convinced the Germans that the Allied forces approaching Normandy were just a feint--the real invasion would come at Calais. Because of his brilliant trickery, the Allies were able to land with much less opposition and eventually push on to Berlin. As incredible as it sounds, everything in Agent Garbo is true, based on years of archival research and interviews with Pujol's family. This pulse-pounding thriller set in the shadow world of espionage and deception reveals the shocking reality of spycraft that occurs just below the surface of history. "Stephan Talty's unsurpassed research brings forth one of the war's greatest agents in a must-read book for those who think they know all the great World War II stories." --Gregory Freeman, author of The Forgotten 500, The little-known World War II espionage story of Spaniard Juan Pujol, who convinced Hitler's Abwehr that he had a ring of spies in Britain, only to pull off one of the greatest feats of any double agent: he fooled Hitler and disguised D-Day., "The book presses ever forward down a path of historical marvels and astonishing facts. The effect is like a master class that's accessible to anyone, and Agent Garbo often reads as though it were written in a single, perfect draft."--The Atlantic Before he remade himself as the master spy known as Garbo, Juan Pujol was nothing more than a Barcelona poultry farmer. But as Garbo, he turned in a masterpiece of deception that changed the course of World War II. Posing as the Nazis' only reliable spy inside England, he created an imaginary million-man army, invented armadas out of thin air, and brought a vast network of fictional subagents to life. The scheme culminated on June 6, 1944, when Garbo convinced the Germans that the Allied forces approaching Normandy were just a feint--the real invasion would come at Calais. Because of his brilliant trickery, the Allies were able to land with much less opposition and eventually push on to Berlin. As incredible as it sounds, everything in Agent Garbo is true, based on years of archival research and interviews with Pujol's family. This pulse-pounding thriller set in the shadow world of espionage and deception reveals the shocking reality of spycraft that occurs just below the surface of history. "Stephan Talty's unsurpassed research brings forth one of the war's greatest agents in a must-read book for those who think they know all the great World War II stories." --Gregory Freeman, author of The Forgotten 500
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2013
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