In the North Africa campaign in 1943, camoufleurs created a ghost army corps. Operation Bertram helped the British Eighth Army defeat Rommel’s vaunted Afrika Korps.
The “Great Sedition Trial” uncovered shocking connections at the time with the German reich that we were fighting, and challenged the idea that the nation was of a single mind during the war. It also challenged exactly how far the national commitment to freedom of speech and opinion reached, especially in extraordinary times.