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Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story That Changed the Course of World War II by Ben Macintyre (Hardcover, 2010)
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One April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and set in train a course of events that would change the course of the Second World War. Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and certainly the strangest. It hoodwinked the Nazi espionage chiefs, sent German troops hurtling in the wrong direction, and saved thousands of lives by deploying a secret agent who was different, in one crucial respect, from any spy before or since: he was dead. His mission: to convince the Germans that instead of attacking Sicily, the Allied armies planned to invade Greece. The brainchild of an eccentric RAF officer and a brilliant Jewish barrister, the great hoax involved an extraordinary cast of characters including a famous forensic pathologist, a gold-prospector, an inventor, a beautiful secret service secretary, a submarine captain, three novelists, a transvestite English spymaster, an irascible admiral who loved fly-fishing, and a dead Welsh tramp. Using fraud, imagination and seduction, Churchill's team of spies spun a web of deceit so elaborate and so convincing that they began to believe it themselves. The deception started in a windowless basement beneath Whitehall. It travelled from London to Scotland to Spain to Germany. And it ended up on Hitler's desk. Ben Macintyre, bestselling author of Agent Zigzag , weaves together private documents, photographs, memories, letters and diaries, as well as newly released material from the intelligence files of MI5 and Naval Intelligence, to tell for the first time the full story of Operation Mincemeat.Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-139780747598688
eBay Product ID (ePID)88408323
Product Key Features
Number of Pages416 Pages
Publication NameOperation Mincemeat: the True Spy Story That Changed the Course of World War Ii
LanguageEnglish
SubjectGovernment, History
Publication Year2010
TypeTextbook
AuthorBen Macintyre
Subject AreaBiographies & True Stories
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height216 mm
Item Width135 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorBen Macintyre
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- 24 Nov, 2021
Excellent Description
Excellent book on one of the most important deception operations in the Second World War. The film of the original book, The Man Who Never Was was only accurate in parts and was “artistically dramatised” with events that never happened. This book gives an accurate and the true storyVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 21 May, 2024
An amazing book about an incredible event that changed the course of the Second World War.
An amazing book about an incredible event that changed the course of the Second World War.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 06 Dec, 2018
Really good read
Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 08 Apr, 2020
A good read
I have seen the film and l now look forwould to reading the book.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 24 Apr, 2022
very good
I have seen the old film of the operasion called the man who never was which was i think better than the remake but it does not make as good as watching as reading about itVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 28 Sep, 2022
Good book
Just as described.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 03 Aug, 2016
compelling story
I watched ben mcintyres documentary version of this and was hooked. I bought the book and could not put it down. I passed it on to a brother in law....nor could he. recently did a collage and text for a soldiers/hero day and this attracted a lot of attention. An often forgotten story that many more should read. So infectious it became I bought another book for someone else. quality and value with amazing intrigueVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 09 Oct, 2019
book
a very good readVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 21 Aug, 2019
For Husband
He enjoys all the books by Ben Macintyre.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 22 Jan, 2020
iowefj
Worth a readVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
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