The 15 Minute Book Club · Alex Churchill, Matt Bone
History Hack: The Man Who Fooled Hitler
June 17, 2024·45 min·4 clips
Dudley Clark invented the Special Air Service as an imaginary force to trick Hitler's spies.
As heard by us
A brisk wartime deception story about fake units, name games, and making them stick.
The episode treats wartime deception as a matter of paperwork, code names, and the awkward job of making a lie plausible to the Germans. Robert Hutton keeps it grounded in the Special Air Service name game, L Detachment, and the briefly awkward chief deception officer episode,…
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Press play if you want a wartime deception story where naming the unit carefully matters.
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