![]() ![]() Some other German agents volunteered themselves to work for Britain. ![]() ![]() By March 1943, Britain had captured 126 spies and turned several into double agents. These five agents were the key players in Britain's Operation Double Cross. What is this, an espionage team or a cast list for a Monty Python sketch? Ben Macintyre does it again unearths the story of a highly improbable, but true, high-stakes World War II espionage caper, carried out by a team of supremely eccentric characters. Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben MacintyreĪ Serbian playboy, a melodramatic Pole, a bisexual Peruvian heiress to a guano fortune that was never enough to keep up with her gambling habit, a failed Spanish chicken farmer and a Frenchwoman of Russian heritage who would place her little white dog (inexplicably named Babs, even though he was male) above any other loyalty. ![]()
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