Ep 2. The Soldier Who Never Was

July 10th, 1943: the Allied troops land in Sicily and open a new breach in the Nazi empire. Crucial to this key operation, two British Intelligence officers devise a most ingenious deception plan to divert the Germans from Sicily...

Two months earlier, the corpse of a British officer was discovered on a Spanish beach, carrying confidential documents that revealed a military landing in the Balkans. The Germans immediately seized this valuable information, never suspecting that the officer never existed, and that the documents he carried were false. It was, in fact, a British ruse to deceive them about the real landing. In this episode of "Spies of War," you will relive all the details of this extraordinary, crucial, and darkly humorous ploy.