num_pages: 320
description: Were the D-Day landings saved from failure because of a lone secret agent?Agent Garbo tells the astonishing story of a self-made secret agent who matched wits with the best minds of the Third Reich  and won. Juan Pujol was a nobody a Barcelona poultry farmer determined to oppose the Nazis. Using only his gift for daring falsehoods Pujol became Germanys most valued agent  or double it took four tries before the British believed he was really on the Allies side.In the guise of Garbo Pujol turned in a masterpiece of deception worthy of his big-screen namesake. He created an imaginary million-man army invented armadas out of thin air and brought a vast network of fictional subagents whirring to life. His unwitting German handlers believed every word and banked on Garbos lies as their only source of espionage within Great Britain.For his greatest performance Pujol had to convince the German High Command t
language: English
title: Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-day
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt