Podcast
D-Day: The Tide Turns
In the episode, Olivier Villavioca referenced the title while discussing how the French Resistance supplied extensive intelligence to the Allies, noting that it contributed roughly 80% of the information needed for planning the liberation of France. He highlighted the book’s detailed account of these contributions, using it as a source for the historical overview.
Episode: 3. Behind Enemy Lines
This book provides details about the French Resistance, mentioning that it provided a lot of intelligence to the British, and was considered to have provided 80% of the information needed to plan for the liberation of France.
His books include The French Resistance and Normandy, the landings to the liberation of Paris.
Before D-Day, the French Resistance gave many, many pieces of intelligence to the British, mainly, and to a certain extent to the Americans.
General Donovan, who was leading the Office of Strategic Services, OSS, which is the ancestor of the CIA, considered that the French had given 80% of the information necessary to plan our world.