Details
Rent Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
Author:
Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Broadway Books
Published: Apr 2011
Genre: History - Military - World War Ii
Retail Price: $18.00
Pages: 416
Synopsis
2011 Broadway trade paperback, Ben Macintyre (A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal). In 1943, from a windowless basement office in London, two brilliant intelligence officers conceived a plan that was both simple and complicated- Operation Mincemeat. The purpose? 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.- Amazon
Reviews
Great story! If you have any interest in WW2, history or espionage this is the book to read.
Excellent portrayal of historic incident.