Operation Fortitude: The True Story of the Key Spy Operation of WWII That Saved D-Day

Joshua Levine

Collins, 2011 - History - 316 pages

Operation Fortitude was the ingenious web of deception spun by the Allies to mislead the Nazis as to how and where the D-Day landings were to be mounted.

About the author

Joshua Levine was born in the Bahamas. He has a law degree and practiced as a criminal barrister for several years in London. He gave up law and became an actor, appearing in amateur theatre productions. He also worked as an assistant producer, working on a documentary about Handel's Water Music. He wrote a stage play entitled, Crash, and went on to write programs for BBC Radio 4. He is the author of Forgotten Voices, Beauty and Atricity, On a Wing and a Prayer, Operation Fortitude, The Secret History of the Blitz, and Dunkirk.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Operation Fortitude: The True Story of the Key Spy Operation of WWII That Saved D-Day
• Author: Joshua Levine
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Collins, 2011
• ISBN: 0007313535, 9780007313532
• Length: 316 pages
• Subjects: History / Europe / Western; History / Military / General; History / Military / Strategy; History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General; True Crime / Espionage