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samhl's review against another edition
4.0
Excellent history book. Not only is the topic fascinating, but the author weaves the stories of the many people, both real and fictional, into a story that I didn’t want to end.
danielatkinson1's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
3.0
lesserjoke's review against another edition
3.0
As made famous in the fictionalized movie The Man Who Never Was, the Allied intelligence mission Operation Mincemeat was an audacious undertaking: the secret planting of a corpse dressed as a British officer and carrying forged documents, in order to mislead Nazi Germany about the site of an upcoming invasion. This 2010 book, drawing directly on recently-declassified military files, is pretty much the definitive story of the operation, an exhaustive deep dive into a fairly narrow topic. The narrative probably could have been streamlined further-- author Ben Macintyre includes several elements that are really only tangentially related at best -- but if the topic interests you, you're unlikely to find a more complete account.