To Trick the Nazis, This Master of Deception Invented Fake Fleets and Armies

Robert Hutton Author, The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler The officer commanding the British garrison on Cyprus was worried. It was 1941, and another Mediterranean island, Crete, had just fallen to a daring airborne attack by the Nazis. Cyprus was far less well defended than Crete had been. Was Brigadier Reginald Rodwell going to be next? And why, instead of sending the reinforcements he…