Bodyguard of Lies is a 1975 non-fiction book on Allied military deception operations during the World War II written by Anthony Cave Brown. His first major historical work, it derives its name from a wartime quote of Winston Churchill, and offers a narrative account of aspects of both the Allied and German intelligence operations during the war. The British and American governments resisted Brown's attempts to research the book. Many of the topics were still classified and he was denied access to British war records. The material in the book is predominantly based on oral testimony as well as some American records, declassified toward the end of Brown's research.
Critical reception has been mixed, initially more balanced, generally more negative with time. Contemporary historians, such as Charles B. MacDonald, praised the work – although some did comment on its length. Modern reviewers have identified inconsistencies or errors in the material, based on later declassified records. Also, some of Brown's personal conclusions have been questioned.
Operation Bodyguard was the code name for a World War II deception strategy employed by the Allied states before the 1944 invasion of northwest Europe...
October 2020. Retrieved 5 December 2017. Cave Brown, Anthony (1975). BodyguardofLies. London: WH Allen. ISBN 978-0-491-01636-0. Chancellor, Henry (2005)...
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was a military deception operation by the Allied nations as part of Operation Bodyguard, an overall deception strategy during the buildup to the 1944 Normandy...
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fashion designer. He was the recipient of many fashion awards, including seven Coty Awards and the Fashion Institute of Technology's Lifetime Achievement Award...
ambassador in Riga, Latvia, until 1935. Anthony Cave Brown, author ofBodyguardofLies, wrote, "Soon, Bazna had ingratiated himself to the extent that Sir...
disappearing; he was presumed killed at the end of the war. In a 2012 reassessment of the Allies' use of double agents in World War II, historian Ben Macintyre...
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Cooper. ISBN 978-0-85052-412-3. Brown, Anthony Cave (2007) [1975]. BodyguardofLies: The Extraordinary True Story Behind D-Day. Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot...
OCLC 769013111 – via Internet Archive. Brown, Anthony Cave (2007) [1975]. BodyguardofLies: The Extraordinary True Story Behind D-Day. Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot...
1941, the Abwehr group of Hugo Bleicher arrested Czerniawski and then Carré. The network had been uncovered because of the lack of proper operational security...
Sørlie left for Hardangervidda. According to Anthony Cave Brown in BodyguardofLies, Haukelid concluded after a trial run that the explosives would be...
state of affairs for two years, capturing agents, and sending false intelligence and sabotage reports until the British caught on. In BodyguardofLies Anthony...
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My Bodyguard is a 1980 American family comedy drama film directed by Tony Bill (his directorial debut), and written by Alan Ormsby. The film stars Chris...
military deception device first used in World War II, intended to imitate a drop of paratroop attackers. This can cause the enemy to shift forces or fires unnecessarily...
loosely based on a 2013 book of the same name, the first in a book series by Kass Morgan. The series follows a group of teens as they become the first...
from the original on 29 August 2019. Brown, Anthony Cave (1975). BodyguardofLies: The Extraordinary True Story Behind D-Day. The Lyons Press. ISBN 978-1-59921-383-5...
in support of Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943. The goal was to deceive the Axis powers as to the location of the Allies'...
that she should always be attended by a bodyguardoflies.". During World War II, the British made extensive use of deception – developing many new techniques...
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