Operation Mincemeat
the true spy story that changed the course of world war ii
$24.30
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
2 December 2024
Summary
The Corpse Who Fooled Hitler: Operation Mincemeat
One April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman discovered the corpse of a British soldier off the Spanish coast, setting in motion a chain of events that would alter the course of World War II.
Operation Mincemeat stands as the most triumphant and peculiar wartime deception ever conceived. It successfully misled Nazi espionage leaders, diverted German troops away from the true target, and spared countless lives by utilizing a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781526682574 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1526682575 |
| Author: | Ben Macintyre |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 2 December 2024 |
| Weight: | 378g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 199mm x 131mm |
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Praise for Agent Zigzag:‘Superb. Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensely entertaining and often very moving’ * John le Carré *‘A fascinating biography of this most astonishing and insouciant of double agents … incredible’ * William Boyd *
‘This is the most amazing book, full of fascinating and hair-raising true lifeadventures … it would be impossible to recommend it too highly’
* Mail on Sunday *‘It is unlikely that a more engaging study of espionage and deception will bepublished this year’
* The Times *About The Author
Ben Macintyre
Ben Macintyre is a columnist and Associate Editor on The Times. He has worked as the newspaper’s correspondent in New York, Paris and Washington. He is the author of seven previous books including Agent Zigzag, the story of wartime double-agent Eddie Chapman, which was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Galaxy British Book Award for Biography of the Year 2008. He lives in London with his wife and three children.
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