non fiction book written major historical work named wartime quote winston_churchill narrative account allied military deception operations second world war british american governments resisted brown attempts research book topics classified denied access british war records material book predominantly based oral testimony american records end brown research critical reception mixed generally negative contemporary historians praised work comment length modern reviewers identified inconsistencies errors material based later records brown personal conclusions questioned background brown published book following career journalist united_kingdom australia work narrates allied deception strategy western years particularly focuses operation book title inspired winston_churchill war time war time truth precious attended bodyguard lies brown began researching writing material based oral testimony second world war intelligence personnel records american records brown says book written able access brown wrote time details deception war classified attempts research resisted british american governments denied access british war records undertake considerable work obtain records requests synopsis opens introduction ultra signals intelligence goes document origins london controlling section work middle_east late allied high command london aware clarke successes based theories deception created colonel granted broad powers plan deception strategy introduction finishes discussion allies evolved deception strategy prior including allied system double agents second section book introduces german intelligence forces particular admiral intelligence agency brown discusses early surrounding conducted germans struggled information fed section book covers allied particular operation brown introduces early revision follows work creating deception plan fourth section covers events early leading normandy landings june particular brown discusses fictional key bodyguard calling greatest history final section book covers events day including physical carried night invasion continued impact bodyguard months landings critical reception book received mixed reviews particularly regards brown focus received positive negative comment later reviewers criticised factual basis work describing containing multitude errors detail reviewers rejecting brown analysis error brown relates widely held theory churchill known german intentions bomb november british leader hidden information avoid giving secrets ultra intercepted german communications records showed intelligence fact vague popular myth suggested writing reviewer brown reliance secondary oral interviews describing book outstanding example scholarly investigative journalism applied field oral military history writing highly critical detail brown writing piles irrelevant detail leave person mentioned biography place equipped atmosphere furniture associations criticised material writing brown inserted novel thesis allied deception war controlled opinion wrong critiques book positive review praised level detail saying ensure large sale letter editor reply deputy chief historian united_states_army referred book important work world war quarter century writing military review noted book non memoir accounts intelligence operations war unusual genre documenting sources went book suggestive definitive concludes writing coverage better similar books available cave brown work fails escape common stigma intelligence narratives considerable detail occasional lack validity interpretation
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