Hoodwinking Hitler: The Normandy Deception

by William B. Breuer

Book Overview

Despite the mighty invasion force the Americans and British mustered in England in early 1944, a top Allied general warned: If the Germans have even a 48-hour advance notice of the time and place of the Normandy landings, we could suffer a monstrous catastrophe For his part, Adolf Hitler planned to inflict such a massive bloodbath on the invaders that the Allies would agree to a negotiated peace with Nazi Germany.

Hoodwinking Hitler...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275944387
• ISBN13: 9780275944384
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

An Excellent Read

This book was actually an assigned text for one of my Naval Postgraduate School courses. I read it while in Fallujah. This is simply a phenomenal book! It reads quickly, is very interesting, and gives the reader an appreciation for how massive the Allied deception campaign was in the months leading up to the invasion of Normandy. To the reader who gave this book one star, I am not sure anyone, other than Adolf Hitler, will ever know what he did or did not believe. One point that all readers should appreciate is that the author was a private who waded ashore on June 6, 1944 and survived an event without parallel in the European Theater of World War 2. The author has my utmost respect and admiration. Excellent book!

Simply excellent!

Very well written with a plethora of little-known facts. Breuer uses small chapters constructing the big view of the D-Day deception operations in a fascinating way, making the book to be read like a thriller. No major mistakes are included in the military aspects of the subject (like the commanding officers, the allied and german orders of battle etc.) while a lot of interesting information is presented in a marvellous way. Especially enjoyable are the many interesting details of the personalities involved.