The Army that Never Was: D-Day and the Great Deception

The Army that Never Was: D-Day and the Great Deception tells the remarkable story of the various Deception campaigns around the D-Day invasion eighty years ago. It is packed with the stories of larger than life individuals inventing and carrying out extraordinary ploys to fool the enemy into thinking that Normandy was just a sideshow and the real invasion was coming across the shortest stretch of the English Channel at the Pas de Calais. Central to this Deception was the invention of a completely hoax army led by General George S. Patton in Kent and East Anglia and the creation of hundreds of dummy landing craft, tanks and aircraft to convince the Germans it was real. New research reveals a hidden link with the cinema industry in building these dummies. This is the almost unbelievable story of what went on behind the scenes of the dramatic D-Day landings. If you read one book for this D-Day anniversary read this one. Sometimes fact is more extraordinary than fiction.