Episode 2: The Soldier Who Never Was

July 10th, 1943: The Allied troops land in Sicily and open a new breach in the Nazi empire.

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... 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 darkly humorous ploy.

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