While ultimate victory may still be out of reach, an honorable peace would now most certainly be possible. All OKW had to do was to use the new intelligence carefully and deliberately to turn the deception back onto the enemy for as long as possible. Now everything that the Allies had been doing to confuse Army Group B these past six months made complete sense. Only three hours earlier, the Allies had launched a massive airborne assault inland from the coast, which signified that the cross-Channel invasion had begun.Ī part of him still couldn’t believe that his son Erik had succeeded beyond his wildest dreams and discovered not only the enemy’s order of battle for Fortress Europe, but their important double agent system. As the first streaks of dawn’s nautical twilight trickled across the Norman landscape of cliffs, dunes, and beaches, he hoped to catch a glimpse of the Allied flotilla of battleships, cruisers, supply ships, and small landing craft that might very well be heading towards the French coast. GENERALLEUTNANT ROBERT GRAF VON WALBURG-right-hand man to Rommel, who was at this very moment racing back from celebrating his wife’s 50th birthday in Herrlingen to Army Group B Headquarters at La Roche Guyon-stood atop a giant shore battery with his Wehrmacht 7×50 Zeiss binoculars aimed at the roiling sea.
Bodyguard of Deception is dedicated to the Allied heroes of WWII, as we celebrate the 72nd anniversary of the Normandy landings, the German collapse at the Falaise Pocket, and the Allies’ triumphant march into Paris. I hope you enjoy it (but I must also issue a spoiler alert for those who plan on reading the book). What would it have been like to have been a German officer on Pointe du Hoc a short distance from Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, during the opening salvo of D-Day (see photo below of today’s remnant Allied artillery shell craters that have pock-marked the salient like the surface of the Moon). In the book excerpt below from Chapter 67 of Bodyguard of Deception, I give you a taste of what it was like to see the massive Allied fleet on the horizon and to feel the pounding of the Naval shells. “Readers looking for an unapologetic historical action book should tear through this volume.” Samuel Marquis has a knack for using historic details and events to create captivating and fun to read tales.” “ Bodyguard of Deception grabbed my attention right from the beginning and never let go. BODYGUARD OF DECEPTION: VOLUME ONE OF THE WORLD WAR TWO TRILOGYīestselling, Award-Winning Suspense Author Samuel Marquis
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