The Unknown Soldier
(2004)The Allies' Greatest Deception in the Days Before D-day
A non fiction book by James Leasor
He was a master spy from Lord Mountbatten's courageous X-Troop, a division so secret that few in the military were even aware it existed. His daring mission was to convince Hitler that the Allies would land in Calais. Given the code name Nimrod, he had to keep the Nazis from Normandy or risk not only his life, but the future of the entire free world.
To complete the mission, he traveled under so many names he was sometimes unsure who he was. He was born Stefan Rosenberg, in Frankfurt, and became a British national before the First World War. He was the perfect undercover plant, loyal to the British, but passably German. The intelligence arm of the British military changed him into Stephen Rigby. He prepared for his role for months, practicing his German, learning to look left and not right when he stepped into the street, perfecting every aspect of his fictitious existence.
He went into France before the invasion, disguised as a German field agent posing as a French resistance fighter, under the name Stephane Dubillier. When the Germans brought him in, he had to convince them that he was neither English, nor French, but a German posing as both.
World War II produced some of the greatest feats of espionage ever attempted, and this amazing true story vividly recounts one of the most crucial turning points in that war.
To complete the mission, he traveled under so many names he was sometimes unsure who he was. He was born Stefan Rosenberg, in Frankfurt, and became a British national before the First World War. He was the perfect undercover plant, loyal to the British, but passably German. The intelligence arm of the British military changed him into Stephen Rigby. He prepared for his role for months, practicing his German, learning to look left and not right when he stepped into the street, perfecting every aspect of his fictitious existence.
He went into France before the invasion, disguised as a German field agent posing as a French resistance fighter, under the name Stephane Dubillier. When the Germans brought him in, he had to convince them that he was neither English, nor French, but a German posing as both.
World War II produced some of the greatest feats of espionage ever attempted, and this amazing true story vividly recounts one of the most crucial turning points in that war.
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