Taylor Downing

A riveting, thrilling account of 1983—the year tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union nearly brought the world to the point of nuclear Armageddon1983 was a dangerous year.

The Army That Never Was: D-Day and the Great Deception tells the remarkable story of the deceptions, hoaxes and misdirections carried out by the Allies ahead of the most pivotal moment of the Second World War - the D-Day invasion.

The full, dramatic story behind Operation Fortitude—the biggest subterfuge of World War II—and the plan to mislead the Germans into thinking that the invasion of Europe would come at Pas-de-Calais.