Diversion and Deception: Dudley Clarke's "A" Force and Allied Operations in World War II

by Whitney T. Bendeck and Bendeck

Book Overview

Among the operations known as Plan Bodyguard, the deception devised to cover the Allies' Normandy landing, was the little known but critical Plan Zeppelin, the largest and most complex of the Bodyguard plans. Zeppelin, in conjunction with the Mediterranean Strategy, succeeded in pinning down sixty German divisions from southern France to the Balkans in time for D-Day. This was the work of "A" Force, Britain's only military organization tasked with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080619085X
• ISBN13: 9780806190853
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"