Operation Sparrow: The Incredible True Story of the Spies Who Tricked Hitler and Won the War

In the final days of WWII, three brave commandos parachute into enemy territory on high-stakes mission of lies and deception. To succeed—and to save D-Day—they’ll first need to become Nazi prisoners. By March 1944, World War II had raged for four and a half years. Tens of millions were already dead. Adolph Hitler wanted to kill many millions more. He knew an Allied invasion was coming and he planned to crush it—if only he could figure out where it would happen. If the Führer guessed right about the landing site, D-Day would fail and the free world would fall to the Nazis. But the Allies had a plan to trick him and win the war. Operation Sparrow called for a crack three-man commando team to drop behind enemy lines and craft a web of deceit powerful enough to sway Hitler. The plan seemed impossible: walk into capture, face Nazi questioning, and make D-Day lies sound true. It was either genius or suicidal. Probably both. Operation Sparrow is the inside, never-before-told story of one of the most daring and successful missions of World War II—a razor’s-edge campaign that diverted millions of Axis troops from the beaches of Normandy through cunning, espionage, and audacity.