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Codeword Overlord
- Axis Espionage and the D-Day Landings
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins
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Summary
The Allied invasion of Europe during summer 1944 was widely expected, and it fell to the Axis intelligence services to provide High Command with advance warning of the precise date and place of the landings. Using cryptanalysis of Allied signals, undercover agents and ships, and photographic evidence, Axis intelligence was pitted directly against their Allied counterparts, who actively tried to create a decoy and aim their enemies at the wrong location.
The success of Operation Overlord has played a large part in historians usually disparaging the German army as incompetent and corrupt. However, recently declassified documents suggest a different story. Spies on the ground, codebreakers from across the Axis, and photo intelligence: theirs was a sophisticated, integrated intelligence system that was supremely conscious of the Allies’s counter-intelligence schemes.
For the first time, acclaimed intelligence author Nigel West provides the full, true story of Axis intelligence and how they affected the events of the D-Day landings.
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- Caroline
- 20-11-23
Boring almost endless lists of German acronyms
Too bored to finish it. I like factual works about WW2 but this is unleavened by any authorship or creativity in the telling.
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- Thoms
- 03-05-24
Un Listenable
Constant meaningless repetitions of acronyms & gobbledegook.
First Audible purchase in ages I couldn't finish and returned
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- Amazon Customer
- 26-11-23
Code word
Awful book. I needed a code book myself to understand what the author was on about. Worst book about WWII I have ever listened to. I just could not stick with it.
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