CONTENTS CASUS BELLI A Clever Clue Economic and Political Unrest CHAPTERS CH 1 Fighting against Might CH 2 Deceiving the Enemy CH 3 Courageous Women Operate Undercover CH 4 The 3 Cs AT WAR’S END A Violent Ending COVERT OPS The Big Secret Germany’s Traitorous Spymaster Triple-Cross Making a City Move Gangster Spies Mind Games World War II Timeline Glossary Selected Bibliography Websites Index 7 8 10 18 26 34 42 9 13 23 29 39 43 44 46 47 47 48
In early 1943 Allied forces were plan ning to invade somewhere in southern Europe and begin an attack against German troops controlling much of the continent The Germans expected an invasion but didn’t know where it would take place Then on May 4 the Germans received a surprise The body of a drowned British naval offi cer washed up on the coast of Spain with a briefcase strapped to the body Inside the case were plans detailing an Allied invasion scheduled for later that summer in Greece A German intelligence officer rushed the infor mation to dictator Adolf Hitler who ordered his generals to send a large force to Greece to counter the attack An invasion did begin on July 9 but it was at Sicily nearly 500 miles 805 km west of Greece The body and the brief case had been planted by Allied spies to trick the Germans The deception worked and signaled a turning point in World War II A CLEVER CLUE
