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Operation Mincemeat: How A Dead Man And A Bizarre Plan Fooled The Nazis And Assured An Allied Victory (2010)

by Ben Macintyre(Favorite Author)

3.9 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0747598681 (ISBN13: 9780747598688)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Bloomsbury

review 1: World War II. Britain. MI5. A corpse in military clothing floated ashore in Spain carrying important documents about a British operation. All part of a plan for disinformation, directing Nazi attention away from the site of a coming invasion. And all true.An epic plan, and an impressive event with such oddments as borrowed underwear and pocket litter, an improbable cohort of people including spies from several countries, double agents, RAF officers, Ian Fleming, an Admiral, a submarine captain, and a motorcar racer. (347 p.)Stranger than fiction.Four and a half stars
review 2: Excellent addition to McIntyre's collection of books on espionage. This is "The Man That Never Was" without the coyness and redactions. The characters are as varied as any fiction, the s... morepycraft as detailed.Even so there are mysteries that still have not been elucidated even 60 years later.I was unaware how dicey the Sicily invasion really was. It is treated almost as a walk-over in current retellings. Important to note that Mussolini was deposed 3 days after the fall of Palermo.Excellent book and a must read for anyone with interest in WWII. less

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