"NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF "A SPY AMONG FRIENDS
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Ben Macintyre's "Agent Zigzag "was hailed as "rollicking,
spellbinding" ("New York Times"), "wildly improbable but entirely
true" ("Entertainment Weekly"), and, quite simply, "the best book
ever written" ("Boston Globe"). In his new book, "Operation
Mincemeat," he tells an extraordinary story that will delight his
legions of fans.
In 1943, from a windowless basement office in London, two brilliant
intelligence officers conceived a plan that was both simple and
complicated-- Operation Mincemeat. The purpose? To deceive the
Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack
southern Europe by way of Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily,
as the Nazis had assumed, and the Allies ultimately chose.
Charles Cholmondeley of MI5 and the British naval intelligence
officer Ewen Montagu could not have been more different.
Cholmondeley was a dreamer seeking adventure. Montagu was an
aristocratic, detail-oriented barrister. But together they were the
perfect team and created an ingenious plan: Get a corpse, equip it
with secret (but false and misleading) papers concerning the
invasion, then drop it off the coast of Spain where German spies
would, they hoped, take the bait. The idea was approved by British
intelligence officials, including Ian Fleming (creator of James
Bond). Winston Churchill believed it might ring true to the Axis
and help bring victory to the Allies.
Filled with spies, double agents, rogues, fearless heroes, and one
very important corpse, the story of Operation Mincemeat reads like
an international thriller.
Unveiling never-before-released material, Ben Macintyre brings the
reader right into the minds of intelligence officers, their moles
and spies, and the German Abwehr agents who suffered the "twin
frailties of wishfulness and yesmanship." He weaves together the
eccentric personalities of Cholmondeley and Montagu and their
near-impossible feats into a riveting adventure that not only saved
thousands of lives but paved the way for a pivotal battle in Sicily
and, ultimately, Allied success in the war.
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