Operation Mincemeat : how a dead man and a bizarre plan fooled the Nazis and assured an allied victory / Ben Macintyre.

Title:

ISBN:

9780307453273

9780307453280

Personal Author:

Macintyre, Ben, 1963-

Edition:

First American edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Harmony Books, [2010]

Physical Description:

x, 400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, plans ; 25 cm

Summary:

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.

Personal Subject:

Montagu, Ewen, 1901-1985.

Corporate Subject:

Great Britain. Royal Navy -- History -- World War, 1939-1945.

Geographic Term:

Sicily (Italy) -- History, Military -- 20th century.

Atlantic Coast (Spain) -- History, Military -- 20th century.

Subject Term:

Operation Mincemeat

World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service--Great Britain

Deception--Great Britain -- History 20th century.

Deception--Spain--Atlantic Coast -- History 20th century.

World War, 1939-1945--Spain--Atlantic Coast.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns--Italy--Sicily

OCLC Number:

ocn449845345

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