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Gerard, Philip
Secret Soldiers: How a Troupe of American Artists, Designers, and Sonic Wizards Won World War II's Battles of Deception Against the Germans
New York Plume Books; Penguin 2003 0452283884 / 9780452283886 First edition thus Trade Paperback Very Good
xv, 400 pp., illus., bib. notes, index; 22 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Appears unread, with a slightly bowed spine. Browning. CONTENTS: ACT I: REHEARSAL; One: The Swashbuckler-1941-1942; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Brings Deception to America from Britain; Two: Hilton Howell Railey, The P. T Barnum of Deception-1942-1944; The Discoverer of Amelia Earhart Creates a Deception Lab; Three: Casting Call for Camoufleurs-1942-1944; Artists and Other Talented Men Recruited as Camoufleurs at Fort Meade, Maryland; Four: Artists of Razzle-Dazzle-January-May 1944; Special Troops Created at Camp Forrest, Tennessee, and Lear Tradecraft of Deception; Five: Deceptive Fidelity-The Sonic Campaign-1944; From Sonic "Bomb" to Sound Effects at Pine Camp, Sonic Warriors; Prepare; Six: Dress Rehearsal at Stratford-upon-Avon-May-July 1944; Special Troops Train in England and Wait for D-Day; ACT II: ONSTAGE; Seven: Seeing the Elephant-June-July 1944; D-Day through the Battle of Normandy, doing it for real; Eight: Bad Show at Brest-August 1944; First Combined Deception Leads American Tanks into a deadly Trap; Nine: Hold That Ghost Line-September-October 1944; Special Troops Hold a Seventy-Mile-Long Gap in American Lines; Force a German Retreat; Ten: Can You Hear Me, Luxembourg?-October-November 1944; Second Troops into Luxembourg-More Operations Against; German Border; Eleven: The Long, Cruel Winter-December 1944-January 1945; Battle of the Bulge Erupts in the Middle of a Deception Operation; Winter Campaigns with Patton and Others to Close the bulge; Twelve: The Deadliest Show-February-March 1945; Luck Runs Out-German Artillery at Last Finds Them, Kills and; Wounds Seventeen; Thirteen: Grand Illusion-March 1945; The Rhine Ruse Succeeds Spectacularly-Ninth Army Crosses, The War is Virtually Won; ACT III: CLOSING THE SHOW; Fourteen: Striking the Set-April-August 1945; Special Troops Demobilized After a Dramatic Hunt for Russian; Fugitives; Epilogue: Curtain Call-Fort Drum N.Y., 15 September 2000; Veterans Assemble at Fort Drum, New York, Their Old Training; Ground, and Find They Have Been Erased from History.
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