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Operation mincemeat, how a dead man and a bizarre plan fooled the Nazis and assured an Allied victory, Ben Macintyre

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Operation mincemeat, how a dead man and a bizarre plan fooled the Nazis and assured an Allied victory, Ben Macintyre

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 541-636) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Operation mincemeat

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

564132878

Responsibility statement

Ben Macintyre

Sub title

how a dead man and a bizarre plan fooled the Nazis and assured an Allied victory

Summary

From the acclaimed author of "Agent Zigzag" comes an extraordinary account of the most successful deception--and certainly the strangest--ever carried out in World War II, one that changed the prospects for an Allied victory. The purpose of the plan--code named Operation Mincemeat--was to deceive the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily, as the Nazis had assumed, and the Allies ultimately chose

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