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D-Day Deception Operation Fortitude and the Normandy Invasion

Mary Kathryn Barbier

Book Code: C9479

ISBN: 0-275-99479-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-99479-2

DOI:

280 pages, 12 photos

Praeger Security International General Interest-Cloth

Publication: 10/30/2007

List Price: $49.95 (UK Sterling Price: £27.95)

Availability: In Stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

Subjects:

History » World War II

Reviews:

Barbier (history, Mississippi State U.) provides a comprehensive account of Operation Fortitude from planning to conclusion that pays more attention to Fortitude North than many previous accounts and, in addition to presenting the Allied perspective, discusses German responses. In her final assessment, she judges the impact of Fortitude to be minimal.
—SciTech Book News February 2008

Description: On 6 June 1944, Allied forces stormed the beaches at Normandy. The invasion followed several years of argument and planning by Allied leaders, who remained committed to a return to the European continent after the Germans had forced the Allies to evacuate at Dunkirk in May 1940. Before the spring of 1944, however, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and other British leaders remained unconvinced that the invasion was feasible. At the Teheran Conference in November 1943, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill promised Josef Stalin that Allied troops would launch Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy, in the spring. Because of their continuing concerns about Overlord, the British convinced the Americans to implement a cover plan to help ensure the invasion's success. The London Controlling Section (LCS) devised an elaborate two-part plan called Operation Fortitude that SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force) helped to fine tune and that both British and American forces implemented. Historians analyzing the Normandy invasion frequently devote some discussion to Operation Fortitude. Although they admit that Fortitude North did not accomplish all that the Allied deception planners had hoped, many historians heap praise on Fortitude South, using phrases such as, "unquestionably the greatest deception in military history." Many of these historians assume that the deception plan played a crucial role in the June 1944 assault. A reexamination of the sources suggests, however, that other factors contributed as much, if not more, to the Allied victory in Normandy and that Allied forces could have succeeded without the elaborate deception created by the LCS. Moreover, the persistent tendency to exaggerate the operational effect of Fortitude on the German military performance at Normandy continues to draw attention away from other, technical-military reasons for the German failures there.

Table of Contents:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
GLOSSARY
CHAPTER ONE: SETTING THE STAGE
CHAPTER TWO: DEVISING A PLAN
CHAPTER THREE: THREATENING NORWAY
CHAPTER FOUR: DECIDING HOW TO IMPLEMENT: FORTITUDE SOUTH
CHAPTER FIVE: PUTTING FORTITUDE SOUTH INTO PLAY: FROM THE BEGINNING UNTIL D-DAY
CHAPTER SIX: CONTINUING THE DECEPTION
CHAPTER SEVEM: REACTING TO THE DECEPTION
CHAPTER EIGHT: ASSESSING OPERATION FORTITUDE
BIBLIOGRAPHY

LC Card Number: 2007027854

LCC Class: D756

Dewey Class: 940

PDF Catalogs:
PSI Public Library Spring 2008.pdf	PSI Catalog Fall 2008.pdf


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