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
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April, 1943: a sardine fisherman spots 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. It hoodwinked the Nazi espionage chiefs, sent German troops hurtling in the wrong direction, and saved thousands of lives by deploying a secret agent who was different, in one crucial respect, from any spy before or since: he was dead. His mission: to convince the Germans that instead of attacking Sicily, the Allied armies planned to invade Greece.The brainchild of an eccentric RAF offic
- Переплёт Мягкий
- Кол-во стр. 414
- Вес 330 г
- Год издания 2016
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Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and certainly the strangest. It hoodwinked the Nazi espionage chiefs, sent German troops hurtling in the wrong direction, and saved thousands of lives by deploying a secret agent who was different, in one crucial respect, from any spy before or since: he was dead. His mission: to convince the Germans that instead of attacking Sicily, the Allied armies planned to invade Greece.
The brainchild of an eccentric RAF officer and a brilliant Jewish barrister, the great hoax involved an extraordinary cast of characters including a famous forensic pathologist, a gold-prospector, an inventor, a beautiful secret service secretary, a submarine captain, three novelists, an irascible admiral who loved fly-fishing, and a dead Welsh tramp.
This is the true story of the most extraordinary deception ever planned by Churchills spies: an outrageous lie that travelled from a Whitehall basement all the way to Hitlers desk.
- Переплёт Мягкий
- Кол-во стр. 414
- Вес 330 г
- Год издания 2016
- Автор
- Размер 2.7x12.6x19.7
- ID товара 2873076
- ISBN 978-1-40-888539-0, 978-1-4088-8539-0