D-Day’s Invisible Front: The Deception Campaign Behind the Normandy Landings

The secret campaign behind D-Day

The troops ashore in Normandy were real. The larger army supposedly waiting to cross near Calais was a carefully maintained deception.

D-Day’s Invisible Front follows that story from the geography of the English Channel to the intelligence reports and command decisions of June and July 1944. Across six connected chapters, it explores Operation Bodyguard, Fortitude, the supposed FUSAG threat, and the controlled agent operation built around GARBO and Tomás Harris.

This concise, illustrated history also asks what the surviving evidence can prove, and where familiar accounts overstate the deception’s effects.

INSIDE THE BOOK

• Six chapters of clear, source-grounded narrative for adult general-history readers

• Two explanatory maps and genuine archival photographs

• A chronology, 25 linked notes, bibliography, and a guide to reading the evidence

YOUR DOWNLOAD INCLUDES

• The complete 43-page, 6 × 9-inch searchable PDF

• The complete reflowable EPUB for EPUB-compatible reading apps

• A README with reading instructions and source information

All three files are delivered together in one ZIP download. This is a digital ebook; no physical book is shipped.

By Histovia Team · First edition, 2026 · English

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The book’s final pages include source and image credits and a note describing the use of AI assistance in research, writing, editing, and production.