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'The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.

~Ben Macintyre

Topics: About Active Best Book Dangerous Dry Eccentricity Espionage Game Incomplete Ingenuity Man Never Nonetheless Participant Parts Played Remains Sheer Strange Those Up Wartime Who Written

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The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.

~Ben Macintyre

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'What if?' history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day - including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery - believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory.

~Ben Macintyre

Topics: Believed Bernard British Cross Double Doubt Eisenhower Game General Had History Including Montgomery No Doubt Operation Pivotal Played Role Senior Tricky Victory What If

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I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

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Topics: Almost Am Entirely Keep Love Secret Stories Telling Unable I Love

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I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

~Ben Macintyre

Topics: Almost Am Been Entirely Hopeless Keep Love Secret Spy Stories Telling Think Unable Would I Think I Love

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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