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"A delight-filled account...as much an entertainment as history." --Wall Street Journal
"A fascinating new book about British intelligence s deception operations against the Axis powers. --Washington Post SpyTalk
Rankin's page-turner helps make the most in the gifted amateurs, eccentrics, and professional illusionists responsible for the imaginative schemes with the British military and details the care and seriousness with which we were holding implemented. --Foreign Affairs
"There isn't a dull page -- not really a dull sentence -- in Nicholas Rankin's fantastic wunderkabinet of wartime revelations. It is all here -- colonels in drag, midget submarines, corpses with stashed secrets, a black radio station called Aspidistra plus more inventions than James Bond's Q could ever conceive -- and it is endlessly fascinating in consequence. No better book regarding the mad arcana of belligerence has have you been written."--Simon Winchester
"Good, rollicking fun."--Max Hastings
"Rankin tells an enthralling, not to convey astounding, true-life tale of inflatable tanks and dummy airfields in addition to pretend r / c reporting on imaginary armies."--Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman
"Nicholas Rankin's book [is a] hymn to amateur invention and its stunningly professional deployment.... It is a magazine of marvellous yarns, that will appeal to a far wider readership as opposed to sombre consumers of ordinary military history. Regimental bores may rail, but it's hard to think about anyone having a taste for human ingenuity being anything apart from enchanted and, if British, sneakily proud. Knee within the goolies. Out just like a light. Works every time."--Michael Bywater, Daily Telegraph
"A thoroughly entertaining read, helped along by Rankin's engaging style. But it's the characters that help you stay hooked."--Jonathan Carter, London Lite
"Nicholas Rankin's well-researched and highly enjoyable book.... [There are] many superb stories of the camouflage, black propaganda, secret intelligence and special forces from the two world wars, that she does very entertainingly indeed."--Andrew Roberts, Daily Telegraph
"Rankin is really a great guide to those arts.... [His] enthusiasm for and data of his subject has produced a magazine replete with anecdote, character sketches and revelations, all embedded within an power to sketch the military and civilian background with enough clarity to guide his narrative and repertoire of characters."--John Lloyd, The Herald
"Mr. Rankin goes poking and probing the lesser-known facts from the two World Wars. What an entertaining journey he provides."--Len Deighton
"A most enjoyable read."--Thaddeus Holt, author of The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception within the Second World War
"This is a story clamouring to get told. During the war we heard rumours, knew there was clearly something called 'camouflage' going on but couldn't have imagined the scope of the inventiveness, the daring of these people's imaginations. Such a galaxy of talents - designers coming from all kinds, real magicians, the make-up people, dyers, painters and inventors. The theatre and also the military created whole armies, ships, navies, aircraft, arsenals of weapons out of shadows and illusions, beyond fantasies and clever paint and trickery. I could not stop reading this book once I had begun."--Doris Lessing
"Nicholas Rankin's engrossing book tells the storyplot with the ambitious and sophisticated deceptions perpetrated from the plucky Brits, which contributed on the turning of the tide and also the winning from the Second World War.... What makes Churchill's Wizards this type of uncommon and arresting read may be the detail of these hair-brained schemes. You couldn't get this stuff up. And yet, that's what exactly Churchill's so-called 'Unknown Warriors' did. With this remarkable book Rankin does them proud."--Miles Fielder, Scotland on Sunday
"If ever the sunday paper was supposed to have a soundtrack that plays along while you read it, this can be it. And that soundtrack needs to be the theme to The Truly Amazing Escape, because Churchill's Wizards is full of tales of derring-do and deception -- tales that in some cases remained hush-hush for decades.... Rankin clearly performed extensive research with this book and it's paid off. It's fascinating, witty, and definately will provide you with a growth of anecdotes than you are able to shake a stick using a papier-mache head at."--Andy Ridgway, Focus Magazine
"Many from the stories...have been told before, but Rankin has enhanced all of them with recently released papers and diaries. It is extremely good reading and offers a romantic look in the utilization of deception and those that made it work. This valuable book gives a whole new perspective for the history with the warfare and deception." -- Hayden B. Peake, CIA Historical Intelligence Collection
In February 1942, intelligence officer Victor Jones erected 150 tents behind British lines in North Africa. "Hiding tanks in Bedouin tents was a classic British trick," writes Nicholas Rankin; German general Erwin Rommel not only knew of the ploy, but had copied it himself. Jones knew that Rommel knew. In fact, he counted on it--for these tents were empty. With the deception that they was carrying out a deception, Jones developed a weak point look just like a trap.
In A Genius for Deception, Rankin offers a lively and comprehensive history of methods Britain bluffed, tricked, and spied its way to victory in 2 world wars. As he shows, a coherent program of strategic deception emerged in World War I, resting around the pillars of camouflage, propaganda, secret intelligence, and special forces. All forms of deception found a passionate sponsor in Winston Churchill, who carried his enthusiasm for deceiving the enemy into World War II. Rankin vividly recounts such little-known episodes as the invention of camouflage by two French artist-soldiers, the advance of dummy airfields for that Germans to bomb during the Blitz, as well as the fabrication of the army that could supposedly invade Greece. Strategic deception could be key with a number of WWII battles, culminating inside massive misdirection that proved critical on the success from the D-Day invasion in 1944.
Deeply researched and written by having an eye for telling detail, A Genius for Deception shows how British used craft and cunning to assist win essentially the most devastating wars in human history.
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"A delight-filled account...as much an entertainment as history." --Wall Street Journal
"A fascinating new book about British intelligence s deception operations contrary to the Axis powers. --Washington Post SpyTalk
Rankin's page-turner makes the most from the gifted amateurs, eccentrics, and professional illusionists responsible for the imaginative schemes in the British military and details the concern and seriousness which we were holding implemented. --Foreign Affairs
"There is not a dull page -- not a dull sentence -- in Nicholas Rankin's fantastic wunderkabinet of wartime revelations. It is all here -- colonels in drag, midget submarines, corpses with stashed secrets, a black radio station called Aspidistra and much more inventions than James Bond's Q could ever conceive -- and is endlessly fascinating in consequence. No better book concerning the mad arcana of belligerence has have you been written."--Simon Winchester
"Good, rollicking fun."--Max Hastings
"Rankin tells an enthralling, not to convey astounding, true-life tale of inflatable tanks and dummy airfields as well as pretend r / c reporting on imaginary armies."--Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman
"Nicholas Rankin's book [is a] hymn to amateur invention and it is stunningly professional deployment.... It is a book of marvellous yarns, which will appeal to some far wider readership as opposed to sombre consumers of ordinary military history. Regimental bores may rail, yet it's hard to imagine anyone with a taste for human ingenuity being anything other than enchanted and, if British, sneakily proud. Knee inside goolies. Out like a light. Works every time."--Michael Bywater, Daily Telegraph
"A thoroughly entertaining read, helped along by Rankin's engaging style. But it's the characters that make you stay hooked."--Jonathan Carter, London Lite
"Nicholas Rankin's well-researched and highly enjoyable book.... [There are] many superb stories with the camouflage, black propaganda, secret intelligence and special forces with the two world wars, that she does very entertainingly indeed."--Andrew Roberts, Daily Telegraph
"Rankin is a great guide to these arts.... [His] enthusiasm for and knowledge of his subject has produced a magazine replete with anecdote, character sketches and revelations, all embedded in a capability to sketch the military and civilian background with enough clarity to aid his narrative and repertoire of characters."--John Lloyd, The Herald
"Mr. Rankin goes poking and probing the lesser-known facts in the two World Wars. What an entertaining journey he provides."--Len Deighton
"A most enjoyable read."--Thaddeus Holt, author of The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War
"This can be a story clamouring to be told. During the war we heard rumours, knew there is something called 'camouflage' occurring but could not have imagined the scope with the inventiveness, the daring of the people's imaginations. That of a galaxy of talents - designers of all kinds, real magicians, the make-up people, dyers, painters and inventors. The theatre and the military created whole armies, ships, navies, aircraft, arsenals of weapons from shadows and illusions, beyond fantasies and clever paint and trickery. I cannot stop reading this book while i had begun."--Doris Lessing
"Nicholas Rankin's engrossing book tells the storyplot with the ambitious and complicated deceptions perpetrated from the plucky Brits, which contributed for the turning of the tide as well as the winning with the Second World War.... The thing that makes Churchill's Wizards this uncommon and arresting read could be the detail of these hair-brained schemes. You couldn't get this to stuff up. And yet, that's just what Churchill's so-called 'Unknown Warriors' did. With this remarkable book Rankin does them proud."--Miles Fielder, Scotland on Sunday
"If ever a magazine was supposed to have a very soundtrack that plays along because you read it, this can be it. And that soundtrack should be the theme to The Truly Great Escape, because Churchill's Wizards is full of tales of derring-do and deception -- tales that in some cases remained hush-hush for decades.... Rankin clearly carried out extensive research with this book and it is paid off. It's fascinating, witty, and will supply you with additional anecdotes than it is possible to shake a stick which has a papier-mache head at."--Andy Ridgway, Focus Magazine
"Many from the stories...have been told before, but Rankin has enhanced them recently released papers and diaries. It is very good reading and provides an enchanting look on the usage of deception and people who caused it to be work. This valuable book gives a new perspective for the history with the warfare and deception." -- Hayden B. Peake, CIA Historical Intelligence Collection
In February 1942, intelligence officer Victor Jones erected 150 tents behind British lines in North Africa. "Hiding tanks in Bedouin tents was a classic British trick," writes Nicholas Rankin; German general Erwin Rommel not only knew of the ploy, but had copied it himself. Jones knew that Rommel knew. In fact, he counted on it--for these tents were empty. With the deception he was carrying out a deception, Jones developed a weak point look as being a trap.
In A Genius for Deception, Rankin supplies a lively and comprehensive history of how Britain bluffed, tricked, and spied its approach to victory by 50 percent world wars. As he shows, a coherent program of strategic deception emerged in World War I, resting for the pillars of camouflage, propaganda, secret intelligence, and special forces. All kinds of deception found a passionate sponsor in Winston Churchill, who carried his enthusiasm for deceiving the enemy into World War II. Rankin vividly recounts such little-known episodes because the invention of camouflage by two French artist-soldiers, the advance of dummy airfields for your Germans to bomb throughout the Blitz, and the fabrication of an army that would supposedly invade Greece. Strategic deception would be key with a amount of WWII battles, culminating within the massive misdirection that proved critical to the success of the D-Day invasion in 1944.
Deeply researched and written with the eye for telling detail, A Genius for Deception shows how British used craft and cunning to assist win the most devastating wars in human history.
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"A delight-filled account...as much an entertainment as history." --Wall Street Journal
"A fascinating new book about British intelligence s deception operations up against the Axis powers. --Washington Post SpyTalk
Rankin's page-turner makes all the most in the gifted amateurs, eccentrics, and professional illusionists responsible for the imaginative schemes from the British military and details the concern and seriousness which we were holding implemented. --Foreign Affairs
"There is not a dull page -- even if it's just a dull sentence -- in Nicholas Rankin's fantastic wunderkabinet of wartime revelations. It is all here -- colonels in drag, midget submarines, corpses with stashed secrets, a black radio station called Aspidistra plus much more inventions than James Bond's Q could ever conceive -- and is endlessly fascinating in consequence. No better book regarding the mad arcana of belligerence has have you ever been written."--Simon Winchester
"Good, rollicking fun."--Max Hastings
"Rankin tells an enthralling, not to express astounding, true-life tale of inflatable tanks and dummy airfields and of pretend r / c reporting on imaginary armies."--Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman
"Nicholas Rankin's book [is a] hymn to amateur invention and its particular stunningly professional deployment.... It is a magazine of marvellous yarns, which will appeal to some far wider readership than the sombre consumers of ordinary military history. Regimental bores may rail, but it's difficult to think of anyone having a taste for human ingenuity being anything besides enchanted and, if British, sneakily proud. Knee in the goolies. Out just like a light. Works every time."--Michael Bywater, Daily Telegraph
"A thoroughly entertaining read, helped along by Rankin's engaging style. But it's the characters that help you stay hooked."--Jonathan Carter, London Lite
"Nicholas Rankin's well-researched and highly enjoyable book.... [There are] many superb stories with the camouflage, black propaganda, secret intelligence and special forces with the two world wars, that they does very entertainingly indeed."--Andrew Roberts, Daily Telegraph
"Rankin is a great guide about bat roosting arts.... [His] enthusiasm for and knowledge of his subject has produced a novel replete with anecdote, character sketches and revelations, all embedded within an power to sketch the military and civilian background with enough clarity to aid his narrative and repertoire of characters."--John Lloyd, The Herald
"Mr. Rankin goes poking and probing the lesser-known facts from the two World Wars. What an entertaining journey he provides."--Len Deighton
"A most enjoyable read."--Thaddeus Holt, author of The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception inside Second World War
"This is really a story clamouring to get told. During the war we heard rumours, knew there were something called 'camouflage' occurring but can't have imagined the scope of the inventiveness, the daring of those people's imaginations. What a galaxy of talents - designers of all kinds, real magicians, the make-up people, dyers, painters and inventors. The theatre along with the military created whole armies, ships, navies, aircraft, arsenals of weapons away from shadows and illusions, from fantasies and clever paint and trickery. I could not stop reading this book while i had begun."--Doris Lessing
"Nicholas Rankin's engrossing book tells the tale with the ambitious and complex deceptions perpetrated with the plucky Brits, which contributed towards the turning of the tide as well as the winning with the Second World War.... What makes Churchill's Wizards this uncommon and arresting read may be the detail of those hair-brained schemes. You couldn't make this stuff up. And yet, that's just what Churchill's so-called 'Unknown Warriors' did. With this remarkable book Rankin does them proud."--Miles Fielder, Scotland on Sunday
"If ever the sunday paper was designed to have a very soundtrack that plays along because you read it, that is it. And that soundtrack needs to be the theme to The Fantastic Escape, because Churchill's Wizards is packed with tales of derring-do and deception -- tales that in some instances remained hush-hush for decades.... Rankin clearly performed extensive research for this book and paid off. It's fascinating, witty, and will provide you with increased anecdotes than you are able to shake a stick with a papier-mache head at."--Andy Ridgway, Focus Magazine
"Many of the stories...have been told before, but Rankin has enhanced all of them with recently released papers and diaries. It is quite good reading and provides an enchanting look with the utilization of deception and those who caused it to be work. This valuable book gives a whole new perspective to the history in the warfare and deception." -- Hayden B. Peake, CIA Historical Intelligence Collection
In February 1942, intelligence officer Victor Jones erected 150 tents behind British lines in North Africa. "Hiding tanks in Bedouin tents was a classic British trick," writes Nicholas Rankin; German general Erwin Rommel not only knew with the ploy, but had copied it himself. Jones knew that Rommel knew. In fact, he counted on it--for these tents were empty. With the deception he was carrying out a deception, Jones developed a weak point look as being a trap.
In A Genius for Deception, Rankin offers a lively and comprehensive history of methods Britain bluffed, tricked, and spied its approach to victory in 2 world wars. As he shows, a coherent program of strategic deception emerged in World War I, resting on the pillars of camouflage, propaganda, secret intelligence, and special forces. All types of deception found an avid sponsor in Winston Churchill, who carried his enthusiasm for deceiving the enemy into World War II. Rankin vividly recounts such little-known episodes as the invention of camouflage by two French artist-soldiers, the creation of dummy airfields for the Germans to bomb through the Blitz, as well as the fabrication of an army that will supposedly invade Greece. Strategic deception can be key to a quantity of WWII battles, culminating in the massive misdirection that proved critical to the success from the D-Day invasion in 1944.
Deeply researched and written with the eye for telling detail, A Genius for Deception shows how British used craft and cunning to help you win one from the most devastating wars in human history.
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"A fascinating new book about British intelligence s deception operations from the Axis powers. --Washington Post SpyTalk
Rankin's page-turner helps to produce the most of the gifted amateurs, eccentrics, and professional illusionists responsible to the imaginative schemes from the British military and details the care and seriousness with which they were implemented. --Foreign Affairs
"There is not a dull page -- not even a dull sentence -- in Nicholas Rankin's fantastic wunderkabinet of wartime revelations. It is all here -- colonels in drag, midget submarines, corpses with stashed secrets, a black radio station called Aspidistra plus much more inventions than James Bond's Q could ever conceive -- and is endlessly fascinating in consequence. No better book regarding the mad arcana of belligerence has lots of people written."--Simon Winchester
"Good, rollicking fun."--Max Hastings
"Rankin tells an enthralling, not to say astounding, true-life tale of inflatable tanks and dummy airfields in addition to pretend stereo reporting on imaginary armies."--Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman
"Nicholas Rankin's book [is a] hymn to amateur invention and its particular stunningly professional deployment.... It is the sunday paper of marvellous yarns, that can appeal to your far wider readership compared to the sombre consumers of normal military history. Regimental bores may rail, but it is tough to imagine anyone with a taste for human ingenuity being anything apart from enchanted and, if British, sneakily proud. Knee within the goolies. Out just like a light. Works every time."--Michael Bywater, Daily Telegraph
"A thoroughly entertaining read, helped along by Rankin's engaging style. But it's the characters that help you stay hooked."--Jonathan Carter, London Lite
"Nicholas Rankin's well-researched and highly enjoyable book.... [There are] many superb stories of the camouflage, black propaganda, secret intelligence and special forces of the two world wars, that he does very entertainingly indeed."--Andrew Roberts, Daily Telegraph
"Rankin is often a great guide about bat roosting arts.... [His] enthusiasm for and data of his subject has produced the sunday paper replete with anecdote, character sketches and revelations, all embedded in an power to sketch the military and civilian background with enough clarity to support his narrative and repertoire of characters."--John Lloyd, The Herald
"Mr. Rankin goes poking and probing the lesser-known facts from the two World Wars. What an entertaining journey he provides."--Len Deighton
"A most enjoyable read."--Thaddeus Holt, author of The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception inside Second World War
"This is really a story clamouring being told. During the war we heard rumours, knew there was clearly something called 'camouflage' taking place but could not have imagined the scope from the inventiveness, the daring of those people's imaginations. What a galaxy of talents - designers of all kinds, real magicians, the make-up people, dyers, painters and inventors. The theatre along with the military created whole armies, ships, navies, aircraft, arsenals of weapons away from shadows and illusions, out of fantasies and clever paint and trickery. I cannot stop looking over this book once I had begun."--Doris Lessing
"Nicholas Rankin's engrossing book tells the tale in the ambitious and sophisticated deceptions perpetrated by the plucky Brits, which contributed on the turning of the tide as well as the winning of the Second World War.... Why is Churchill's Wizards this type of uncommon and arresting read is the detail of these hair-brained schemes. You couldn't make this stuff up. And yet, that's just what Churchill's so-called 'Unknown Warriors' did. With this remarkable book Rankin does them proud."--Miles Fielder, Scotland on Sunday
"If ever a novel was intended to possess a soundtrack that plays along as you read it, this can be it. And that soundtrack should be the theme to The Fantastic Escape, because Churchill's Wizards is packed with tales of derring-do and deception -- tales that in some cases remained hush-hush for decades.... Rankin clearly completed extensive research just for this book and it's really paid off. It's fascinating, witty, and definately will provide you with an increase of anecdotes than it can be done to shake a stick using a papier-mache head at."--Andy Ridgway, Focus Magazine
"Many from the stories...have been told before, but Rankin has enhanced them with recently released papers and diaries. It is extremely good reading and provides an intimate look in the use of deception and people who caused it to be work. This valuable book gives a fresh perspective for the history from the warfare and deception." -- Hayden B. Peake, CIA Historical Intelligence Collection
In February 1942, intelligence officer Victor Jones erected 150 tents behind British lines in North Africa. "Hiding tanks in Bedouin tents was a well used British trick," writes Nicholas Rankin; German general Erwin Rommel not only knew in the ploy, but had copied it himself. Jones knew that Rommel knew. In fact, he counted on it--for these tents were empty. With the deception that he was carrying out a deception, Jones developed a weak point look like a trap.
In A Genius for Deception, Rankin offers a lively and comprehensive history of methods Britain bluffed, tricked, and spied its way to victory by 50 percent world wars. As he shows, a coherent program of strategic deception emerged in World War I, resting for the pillars of camouflage, propaganda, secret intelligence, and special forces. All forms of deception found a devoted sponsor in Winston Churchill, who carried his enthusiasm for deceiving the enemy into World War II. Rankin vividly recounts such little-known episodes as the invention of camouflage by two French artist-soldiers, the advance of dummy airfields for the Germans to bomb during the Blitz, and also the fabrication of an army that might supposedly invade Greece. Strategic deception will be key to your number of WWII battles, culminating inside the massive misdirection that proved critical to the success with the D-Day invasion in 1944.
Deeply researched and written with the eye for telling detail, A Genius for Deception shows how British used craft and cunning to aid win probably the most devastating wars in human history.
