Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story That Changed The Course Of World War II
by:
Ben Macintyre (author)
trade edition paperback fine condition .
trade edition paperback fine condition .
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781408809211 (1408809214)
Publish date: September 6th 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
War,
Military,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage,
World War II,
Military History
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...
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