Deception In War by Jon Latimer Softcover Book

Title: Deception In War by Jon Latimer Softcover Book.
Author: Jon Latimer.
Type: Non-Fiction.
Edition: John Murray Paperback 2003.
Publisher: John Murray.
Year First Published: 2001.
Format: Softcover Book.
Printed By: Clays Ltd, St Ives.
Page Count: 356 pages.
Width: 13cm
Height: 19.5cm
Thickness: 2.8cm
Info: From simple low-tech tricks to the digitized crackle of false data, Latimer, a combat-experienced British intelligence officer, offers a wide-ranging history of military deception. He divides the ruses into their respective warfare modes "Naval Deception," "Deception in Air Operations," "Deception in Counter-Revolutionary and Irregular Warfare."  Although the bulk of the book centers on WWII, Latimer also shows how the Hittites lured Ramses II into an ambush, tells the familiar biblical story of the Israelite commander Gideon and how he panicked a much larger Midianite soldiery, then looks at Venetian-Genoese rivalry in the Mediterranean. British decoy aircraft, Operation Bodyguard (one of 36 bluffs covering the allied invasion of Europe in 1944 that is a chapter in itself), and commanders and theorists like Eisenhower, German Generaloberst Franz Halder and China People's Liberation Army commander Liu Po-Ch'eng are all put through their paces, along with the now much talked-about "Hail Mary" maneuver that enabled coalition forces to rout Saddam Hussein's large army in the Gulf War. The end result is a broad study of military bluff and how it has influenced decisive wars, campaigns and battles. Perhaps it should be classified. 10 maps; 35 illustrations - Publishers Weekly.
Jon Latimer served for sixteen years as an officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, as Platoon Commander, Assault Troop Leader, and Battalion Intelligence Officer. He has published widely in military journals, and is also the author of Operation Compass 1940 and, with Jim Laurier, of CAM080 Tobruk 1941. His Deception in War was a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, the History Book Club, and the Military History Book Club.
Condition: Very Good, all pages and binding intact, no loose pages.
Price: R 145.00 Inc Vat.