Operation Mincemeat : the true spy story that changed the course of World War II
Macintyre, Ben, 1963-2010
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One April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and set in train a course of events that would change the course of the Second World War. Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and certainly the strangest.
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Author:
Edition:
New ed.
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2010.
Collation:
xiii, 414 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781408809211 (pbk)1408809214 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.5'486'41920.940.548641940.5486940.54864940.548
Local class:
940.548SF MACI 2
Language:
English
BRN:
544076