“Book Descriptions:The Spy with 29 Names is a gripping account of the exploits of Juan Pujol, the most extraordinary double agent of WWII. After the Spanish Civil War, determined to fight the spread of totalitarianism, Pujol moved to Lisbon with his wife, persuading the German intelligence services to take him on. But in fact, he was determined all along to work for the British, whom he saw as the exemplar of democracy and freedom. Seeing the impact of the disinformation this Quixotic freelance agent was feeding to the Germans, MI5 brought him to London, where he created a bizarre fictional network of spies - 29 of them - that misled the entire German high command, including Hitler himself. Above all, in Operation Fortitude he diverted German Panzer divisions away from Normandy, playing a crucial role in safeguarding D-Day and ending the war, and securing his reputation as the greatest double agent in history.
With his intimate knowledge of Spain, Jason Webster sheds fresh light on Pujol's charismatic personality, interweaving his bizarre picaresque tale with vivid insights into the shady worlds of Bletchley and MI5, and the British and German soldiers whose lives his fantasies would touch so dramatically. Meticulously researched, yet told with a novelist's verve,The Spy with 29 Names uncoversthe reality - far, far stranger than any fiction - one of recent history's most important and dramatic events.” DRIVE
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