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The Unlikely Spy is a 1996 spy novel written by Daniel Silva, set during World War II. While some of the characters and events are fictional, the book is based on the real-life attempt by the Allies to use British intelligence to cover up the true plans for D-Day. The deception plan was called Operation Fortitude, and Double Cross also played a ...
Pages in category "World War II films based on actual events" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 327 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A Call to Spy (2019) – historical drama film inspired by the true stories of three women who worked as spies in World War II [7] [8] A Girl from Mogadishu (2019) – Irish - Belgian semi-biographical film based on the testimony of Ifrah Ahmed , who having escaped war-torn Somalia , emerged as one of the world's foremost international ...
This is a Bibliography of World War II memoirs and autobiographies. This list aims to include memoirs written by participants of World War II about their wartime experience, as well as larger autobiographies of participants of World War II that are at least partially concerned with the author's wartime experience.
The book was published in 1950. Brickhill, an Australian journalist before and after the war, had previously written four different accounts of the story, first as a BBC media talk / interview, then as newspaper and Reader's Digest magazine articles, and in the 1946 book Escape to Danger which he co-wrote with Conrad Norton. By the time four ...
Mila 18 is a historical novel by Leon Uris set in German-occupied Warsaw, Poland, before and during World War II. Mila 18 debuted at #7 on The New York Times Best Seller list and peaked at #2 in August 1961. [1]
World War II gave rise to a new boom in contemporary war novels. Unlike World War I novels, a European-dominated genre, World War II novels were produced in the greatest numbers by American writers, who made war in the air, on the sea, and in key theatres such as the Pacific Ocean and Asia integral to the war novel.
The book was followed by a sequel, A Good Clean Fight, following the exploits of a number of the surviving characters of Piece of Cake in North Africa. The very first publication by Roald Dahl (author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , James and the Giant Peach , etc) was a 1942 article that he had titled "A Piece of Cake" (although the ...