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Operation Mincemeat

The author of "Agent Zigzag" returns with another story from World War II. Toward the end of the war, two British naval officers came up with a brilliant, if slightly wacky, plan to mislead the Nazi armies about the Allied attack plans in southern Europe. To carry out the plan, they would need an unusual secret agent: a dead one.

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  • "An extraordinary account of the most successful deception--and certainly the strangest--ever carried out in World War II. - a deception 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 through Sicily as the Nazis had assumed, and as the Allies ultimately chose."
  • "The author of "Agent Zigzag" returns with another story from World War II. Toward the end of the war, two British naval officers came up with a brilliant, if slightly wacky, plan to mislead the Nazi armies about the Allied attack plans in southern Europe. To carry out the plan, they would need an unusual secret agent: a dead one."@en
  • "A new, thrilling, real-life story of a wartime double agent."
  • "The masterminds of Operation Mincemeat dreamed up the most unlikely series of events, rendered them credible, and sent them off to war. They changed reality through lateral thinking, and proved that it is possible to win a battle fought in the mind, from behind a desk, and from beyond the grave. Operation Mincemeat was pure make-believe; and it made Hitler believe a lie that changed the course of history. Ben Macintyre weaves together private documents, photographs, memories, letters and diaries, as well as newly released material from the intelligence files of MI5 and Naval Intelligence, to tell for the first time the full story of Operation Mincemeat."
  • "Macintyre details Operation Mincemeat--a top-secret Allied plan to divert Nazi attention from a planned invasion of Sicily that involved forged documents and a carefully planted corpse."@en
  • "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."@en
  • "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."
  • "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."@en
  • "Chronicles World War II's pivotal deception by two British naval officers who successfully fed false intelligence to the Nazis about where Allied forces were planning an attack in southern Europe."@en

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  • "Talking books"
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  • "Operation Mincemeat the true spy story that changed the course of World War II"
  • "Operation mincemeat the true spy story that changed the course of World War II"
  • "Operation Mincemeat [the true spy story that changed the course of World War II]"
  • "Operation Mincemeat"@en
  • "Operation Mincemeat how a dead man and a bizarre plan fooled the Nazis and assured an Allied victory"@en
  • "Operation Mincemeat the true story that changed the course of World War II"
  • "Operation Mincemeat, Ben MacIntyre"
  • "Operation Mincemeat [how a dead man and a bizarre plan fooled the Nazis and assured an Allied victory]"@en
  • "Operation Mincemeat how a dead man and a bizarre plan fooled the Nazis and assured an allied victory"@en
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