If the subject interests, you should check out “The War Magician.” It’s about Jasper Maskelyne—an English magician whose talents were put to good use in the North African campaign. Among other things, he managed to fool Rommel into moving his tanks in another direction by creating a dummy division, and he also managed to “move” Alexandria’s harbour by creating a fake one. The research is dubious, because it appears that his main source of information was Maskelyne himself, who had something of a reputation for telling tall tales, but even if he managed to achieve half of what he claimed, it’s still a good story.