{"product_id":"agent-garbo","title":"Agent Garbo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The book presses ever forward down a path of historical marvels and astonishing facts. The effect is like a master class that's accessible to anyone, and \u003cem\u003eAgent Garbo\u003c\/em\u003e often reads as though it were written in a single, perfect draft.\"--\u003cem\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore he remade himself as the master spy known as Garbo, Juan Pujol was nothing more than a Barcelona poultry farmer. But as Garbo, he turned in a masterpiece of deception that changed the course of World War II. Posing as the Nazis' only reliable spy inside England, he created an imaginary million-man army, invented armadas out of thin air, and brought a vast network of fictional subagents to life. The scheme culminated on June 6, 1944, when Garbo convinced the Germans that the Allied forces approaching Normandy were just a feint--the real invasion would come at Calais. Because of his brilliant trickery, the Allies were able to land with much less opposition and eventually push on to Berlin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs incredible as it sounds, everything in Agent Garbo is true, based on years of archival research and interviews with Pujol's family. This pulse-pounding thriller set in the shadow world of espionage and deception reveals the shocking reality of spycraft that occurs just below the surface of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Stephan Talty's unsurpassed research brings forth one of the war's greatest agents in a must-read book for those who think they know all the great World War II stories.\" --Gregory Freeman, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Forgotten 500\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephan Talty","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46045614637125,"sku":"BS-LIB-035010","price":16.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2482\/2494\/files\/9780544035010-HD.jpg?v=1792291655","url":"https:\/\/libros787.com\/products\/agent-garbo","provider":"Libros787.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}