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

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

Title remainder

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

Statement of responsibility

Ben Macintyre

Creator

• Macintyre, Ben, 1963-

Subject

• Deception -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
• Deception -- Spain | Atlantic Coast -- History -- 20th century
• Great Britain, Royal Navy -- History -- World War, 1939-1945
• Montagu, Ewen, 1901-1985
• Atlantic Coast (Spain) -- History, Military -- 20th century
• Sicily (Italy) -- History, Military -- 20th century
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Italy | Sicily
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Great Britain
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Spain | Atlantic Coast
• Operation Mincemeat

Language

eng

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

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

940.54/8641

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plans
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography