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Operation Mincemeat - The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II (Paperback)
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Operation Mincemeat - The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II (Paperback)
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A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB SELECTION A SUNDAY TIMES NO 1.
BESTSELLER 'Astonishing ... Sheds riveting new light on this
breathtaking plan' Daily Mail 'A rollicking read' Max Hastings,
Sunday Times 'Brilliant and almost absurdly entertaining' Malcolm
Gladwell, New Yorker ____________________ April, 1943: a sardine
fisherman spots the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea
off the coast of Spain and sets off a train 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, an
irascible admiral who loved fly-fishing, and a dead Welsh tramp.
This is the true story of the most extraordinary deception ever
planned by Churchill's spies: an outrageous lie that travelled from
a Whitehall basement all the way to Hitler's desk.
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