Ten Thousand Eyes : The Amazing Story of the Spy Network That Cracked Hitler's Atlantic Wall Before D-Day

by Richard Collier

• ISBN13: 9781585742943
• ISBN10: 1585742945
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: The Lyons Press

Summary

When France fell to the Germans in 1940, a slight, scholarly twenty-eight-year-old captain of engineers and professor escaped to England, and with General Charles De Gaulle and Andre Dewavrin, he organized an intelligence service with one goal -- to secure a blueprint for Germany's Atlantic Wall and place it in the hand of the Allies. What follows is a remarkable story of a clandestine spy network comprised of sailors, farmers, painters, housewives, and children all unified in one purpose -- the fall of the Third Reich.

Richard Collier tells the story of how ordinary men and women from all walks of life risked torture and death in German-occupied Normandy to furnish the Allied forces with detailed information of the German coastal defenses, knowledge essential for D-Day success. Working from material both published and unpublished, Collier has created an authentic record of one of the most remarkable episodes of World War II, a human story of a group of ordinary people whose faith paved the way for Eisenhower's great sweep on D-Day.

Table of Contents

A Plan is Devised	13	(9)
--And Thwarted	22	(7)
Paving the Way	29	(6)
A Target is Known	35	(13)
A Network is Born	48	(15)
Operation Wall	63	(15)
The Map and The Mirror	78	(11)
A Plan in Jeopardy	89	(19)
Operation Marie-Louise	108	(25)
Blueprint for Century	133	(16)
Mapping the Ports	149	(18)
Secret Army	167	(12)
The Whispering Map	179	(20)
A Wall Has Eyes	199	(17)
A Network is Betrayed	216	(18)
Storm in the West	234	(20)
Network in Shadows	254	(12)
The Lost Leaders	266	(10)
Wild Justice	276	(8)
A Wall is Breached	284	(15)
The Last Map	299	(11)
Epilogue	310	(5)
Appendix: Cast of Principal Characters	315