Operation Mincemeat (was) perhaps the most successful single deception operation of the entire war.' However, the Allies had a problem. Hitler and his generals would see this attack coming a mile off ...

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Read more about WW2 The D-Day deception campaign that fooled the Nazis In the early spring of 1944, British Commandos carried out a series of targeted attacks in Norway. Destroying industrial and ...

Clarke is still considered one of the greatest masters of military deception for hoodwinking the Nazis, including making them believe non-existent troops were a threat. Gwilym’s character Bill ...

I’ve always had a special interest in camouflage because my father brilliantly avoided fighting in the Second World War by becoming an Officer in the Camouflage Unit at Leamington Spa. (My uncle had ...

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Tom Curran's "The Grand Deception: Churchill and the Dardanelles" presents a detailed examination of Churchill's role in the decision-making process that led to the Gallipoli landings. Using ...

Imposture is a critical threat to the stability of civilisation. The damage done in the English-speaking world by liars, cheats, risk-takers, sinister enchanters and deluded egoists since 2016 is ...

Montagu and Cholmondeley prepare the fake Major Martin’s body in WW2’s greatest deception. Ben Macintyre investigates how Ewen Montagu and Charles Cholmondeley prepared the fake Major Martin ...

From propaganda disinformation campaigns and daring acts of espionage behind enemy lines, to the creation of fictional armies, Deception: World War II picks apart various wartime operations and looks ...