{"product_id":"9780544035010","title":"Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day","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 \u003ci\u003eAgent Garbo\u003c\/i\u003e often reads as though it were written in a single, perfect draft.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Before 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\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\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 \u003ci\u003eThe Forgotten 500\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47009326792944,"sku":"9780544035010","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780544035010_p0.jpg?v=1763711539","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780544035010","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}