Operation Mincemeat Operation Mincemeat

Operation Mincemeat

How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory

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Publisher Description

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING COLIN FIRTH • The “brilliant and almost absurdly entertaining” (Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker) true story of the most successful—and certainly the strangest—deception carried out in World War II, from the acclaimed author of The Spy and the Traitor

“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

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2010
May 4
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
416
Pages
PUBLISHER
Crown
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
46
MB

Customer Reviews

Gmorris412 ,

The intrigue of war

The descriptions and details of this story are fabulous. I loved it from start to finish.

tonybullock ,

Consistently entertaining.

This is the 3rd McIntyre book I’ve read, and I’ve enjoyed them all very much.

OMG librarian ,

Operation Mincemeat

Loved the story but the book got so bogged down with minute details. I found myself “grinding” through the pages.

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