Operation Mincemeat : the true spy story that changed the course of World War II
Macintyre, Ben, 1963-2016
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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.
Main title:
Author:
Macintyre, Ben, 1963-, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2016.
Collation:
xiii, 414 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2010.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781408885390 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.548641
LC class:
D810.S7
Language:
English
BRN:
1765368