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In his famous bestsellers Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, Ben Macintyre informed the amazing accurate tales of the amazing WWII double-agent and of the way the Partners used a corpse to trick the Nazis and guarantee a definitive victory.  In Double Mix, Macintyre returns using the unknown tale of the great ultimate fraud of the battle and of the amazing agents who accomplished it.   On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied soldiers landed on the shores of Normandy and endured an amazingly low-rate of casualties.  d day was a sensational military achievement, however it was also a masterpiece of trickery. Operation Fortitude, which secured and allowed the intrusion, and the Double Mix program, which specialized in switching German spies into double providers, fooled the Nazis into thinking the Partners could strike at Calais and Norway in the place of Normandy. It was the most advanced and effective fraud operation actually completed, making certain Hitler held a whole military expecting a phony intrusion, saving a large number of lives, and acquiring an Allied victory in the most crucial moment in the war.   The tale of d day hasbeen told in the perspective of the troops who fought in it, the tacticians who prepared it, and the generals who brought it. But this legendary event in earth history hasn't before been told in the viewpoints of the important thing people within the Double-Cross System.