Samuel Hynes has spent his life balancing two careers: pilot and professor of literature. Hynes knows war personally. He served as a Marine Corps pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross. He has also written a number of major works of literary criticism, a war-memoir, Flights of Passage, and several books about the World Wars. Hynes asserts that war itself...the battlefield uproar of actual combat...

"World War II deception operations created elaborate fictions and subterfuges to prevent the enemy from apprehending the true targets and objectives of Allied forces. These operations shortened the war considerably and saved countless lives—and they were often invented, proposed, and sometimes executed by creative minds that would come to be known worldwide for their spy novels. In Counterfeit Spies: How World War II Intelligence Operations Shaped...