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12 mag 2024 · Photograph from Wikipedia. Mark Hennessy. Sun May 12 2024 - 08:00. Dudley Clarke was the British army’s greatest deception expert during the second World War, hoodwinking Erwin Rommel at the...
17 mag 2024 · Colonel Dudley Wrangel Clarke, brilliant strategist of military deception during World War Two, once wore a dress. He didn’t care; others continue to be much more interested than he was himself.
9 mag 2024 · The pioneer of Allied deception in the Second World War was Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Clarke. He was a remarkable figure by all accounts, with a mysterious ability to enter a room without anybody knowing that he had come in.
4 mag 2024 · But the eccentric Dudley Clarke did so on a scale never accomplished before. In The Illusionist, historian Robert Hutton reveals the amazing story of how Clarke hoodwinked ‘Desert Fox’ Erwin Rommel, at the Battle of El Alamein in 1942 – an experiment in subterfuge that saved many lives on both sides.
- Military History
11 mag 2024 · They included the charismatic and occasional cross-dresser Dudley Clarke; upper-class John Bevan, whose frail appearance hid a robust risk-taker; Peter Fleming, the talented elder brother of...
- Ian Hernon
17 ore fa · Poco después, el brigadier Dudley Clarke se acercó a Maskelyne. ¿El propósito? Solicitarle que se uniera al MI9, como parte de la “Fuerza A”, una sección especial de inteligencia cuya misión principal sería engañar al enemigo. Como lo describió Clarke en sus memorias, su objetivo era “conservar en lugar de destruir”.
15 mag 2024 · Old habits die hard. When it comes to policing and military matters here, the primary one seems to be secrecy. There’s a new book about one of the men who inspired the SAS, the cross-dressing...
