by Ben Macintyre
This was a fascinating true story of espionage during WWII. I have added his earlier book to my "for later" list. I could not put it down, reading late into the night, despite having to get up early the next morning, taking every free moment I had to read a few more pages.
This book is about a strange, yet true, espionage plan England used to deceive Germany. England's plan involved using a dead body carrying falsified documents to misled Germany into thinking that they were going to attack Greece and Sardinia instead of the obvious target, Sicily. Some of the details...
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Audacious world war II plan to deceive the Germans about the invasion of Southern Europe
When a dead man becomes a highly effective spy, fools the enemy and helps win a war with the world in the balance, well, that sounds like something James Bond writer Ian Fleming would concoct. Oh wait, he did. To be specific (and more correct), Operation Mincemeat, a plan devised by Britain's intell...
Enjoyed it from beginning til the end. Who can resists this kind of spy & counter intelligent stories from WWII?
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A corker of a read so far.
This book was written by the same author who wrote "Agent Zigzag". (see http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/114905626 for my review)I have to say that I am really pleased by the excellent research, the blending together of many threads into a coherent and suspenseful story, and how the character o...
The basic story is well known, but since the appearance of the first book, The Man Who Never Was, an extraordinary amount of new material has become available. Even if you've read The Man Who Never Was (I had), I can't recommend Operation Mincemeat highly enough. This is, quite simply, the most extr...
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