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| Introduction - 23 March 1945 | 1 | |
| 1 | The Swashbuckler - 1941-1942: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. brings deception to America from Britain | 11 |
| 2 | Hilton Howell Railey, The P. T. Barnum of Deception - 1942-1944: The discoverer of Amelia Earhart creates a deception lab | 30 |
| 3 | Casting Call for Camoufleurs - 1942-1944: Artists and other talented men recruited as camoufleurs at Fort Meade, Maryland | 53 |
| 4 | Artists of Razzle-Dazzle - January-May 1944: Special Troops created at Camp Forrest, Tennessee, and learn tradecraft of deception | 82 |
| 5 | Deceptive Fidelity - The Sonic Campaign - 1944: From sonic "bomb" to sound effects at Pine Camp, sonic warriors prepare | 100 |
| 6 | Dress Rehearsal at Stratford-upon-Avon - May-July 1944: Special Troops train in England and wait for D-Day | 122 |
| 7 | Seeing the Elephant - June-July 1944: D-Day through the Battle of Normandy, doing it for real | 139 |
| 8 | Bad Show at Brest - August 1944: First combined deception leads American tanks into a deadly trap | 162 |
| 9 | Hold That Ghost Line - September-October 1944: Special Troops hold a seventy-mile-long gap in American lines, force a German retreat | 189 |
| 10 | Can You Hear Me, Luxembourg? - October-November 1944: Second troops into Luxembourg - more operations against German border | 206 |
| 11 | The Long, Cruel Winter - December 1944-January 1945: Battle of the Bulge erupts in the middle of a deception operation - winter campaigns with Patton and others to close the bulge | 225 |
| 12 | The Deadliest Show - February-March 1945: Luck runs out - German artillery at last finds them, kills and wounds seventeen | 245 |
| 13 | Grand Illusion - March 1945: The Rhine ruse succeeds spectacularly - Ninth Army crosses, the war is virtually won | 261 |
| 14 | Striking the Set - April-August 1945: Special Troops demobilized after a dramatic hunt for Russian fugitives | 295 |
| Epilogue: Curtain Call - Fort Drum N.Y., 15 September 2000: Veterans assemble at Fort Drum, New York, their old training ground, and find they have been erased from history | 323 | |
| Afterword and Acknowledgments | 341 | |
| Selected Published Sources | 349 | |
| Notes | 353 | |
| Index | 385 |
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