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Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
2010·416 pages
British intelligence officers devise an elaborate WWII deception using a corpse with false documents to mislead Nazi forces about the Allied invasion of Sicily.
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British intelligence officers devise an elaborate WWII deception using a corpse with false documents to mislead Nazi forces about the Allied invasion of Sicily.
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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...
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Brief mentions of social drinking in 1940s Britain
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Details WWII Allied strategy and intelligence operations
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