1st Edition

The Mediterranean Double-Cross System, 1941-1945

By Brett Lintott Copyright 2019
244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

This book describes and analyzes the history of the Mediterranean "Double-Cross System" of the Second World War, an intelligence operation run primarily by British officers which turned captured German spies into double agents. Through a complex system of coordination, they were utilized from 1941 to the end of the war in 1945 to secure Allied territory through security and counter-intelligence... Read more

Contents;Acknowledgments;Abbreviations and Glossary;Codenames of Military Operations and Deception Plans;A Note on References and Sources;Introduction;1: Double Agent Operations from the Outbreak of War to November 1942;2: The Development of the Mediterranean Double-Cross System;3: Strategic Deception and the 1943 Mediterranean Campaign;4: Security and Counter-Intelligence, 1942-45;5: Counter-Sabotage in Gibraltar, 1940-44.;6: Operational and Strategic Deceptions in Italy, 1944-45. ;Conclusion;Bibliography

Biography

Brett Lintott received his PhD in history from the University of Toronto in 2015

"This is an essential read for those with an interest in intelligence operations, as Lintott offers us a look at undertakings involving different problems in a different environment." - The NYMAS Review