Operation Mincemeat; How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
Language: English
Published by Broadway Books, New York, 2014
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Format is 5.25 inches by 8 inches. xiv, 412, [22] pages. Illustrations. Appendix. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. Postscript to Paperback Edition. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Benedict Richard Pierce Macintyre (born 25 December 1963) is a British author, historian, and columnist writing for The Times newspaper. His columns range from current affairs to historical controversies. Macintyre is the author of a book on the gentleman criminal Adam Worth, The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief. He also wrote The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan, and a book on Eddie Chapman, a double agent of Germany and Britain during the Second World War, titled Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy. Four of his books have recently been made into documentaries for the BBC: Operation Mincemeat, DOUBLE AGENT: The Eddie Chapman Story, Double Cross - The True Story of the D Day Spies and Kim Philby - His Most Intimate Betrayal. Derived from a review published in a British newspaper: Operation Mincemeat was geared to making the Nazis believe that the Allies intended in early 1943 to push up into Europe through Greece and Sardinia rather than Italy. The artifice letters and other documentation found on the body of a supposedly drowned British officer washed up on the shores of southern Spain. Ewen Montagu, a Jewish barrister who was NID representative on the Twenty Committee, took on organizational responsibility for Mincemeat. He found the necessary dead body and set about establishing this unfortunate's new identity as Major Martin, courier of official letters hinting at an invasion through Greece and Sardinia. Macintyre has drawn on personal accounts as well as new material. His unraveling of what happened is brilliant - from the reactions of German spies in Spain to the fine tuning by Britain's spy master in Madrid.…
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- Title
- Operation Mincemeat; How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
- Author
- Macintyre, Ben
- Publisher
- Broadway Books, New York
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Very good
- Binding
- Trade paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0307453286
- ISBN 13
- 9780307453280
- Illustrator
- Jon Valk (Cover Design) and Jerry Bauer (Author Ph
- Edition
- Later printing.
"Pure catnip to fans of World War II thrillers and a lot of fun for everyone else."--Joseph Kanon, The Washington Post Book World
Near the end of World War II, two British naval officers came up with a brilliant and slightly mad scheme to mislead the Nazi armies about where the Allies would attack southern Europe. To carry out the plan, they would have to rely on the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man.
Ben Macintyre's dazzling, critically acclaimed bestseller chronicles the extraordinary story of what happened after British officials planted this dead body--outfitted in a British military uniform with a briefcase containing false intelligence documents--in Nazi territory, and how this secret mission fooled Hitler into changing military positioning, paving the way for the Allies' drive to victory.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES
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