Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story That Changed the Course of World War II by Ben Macintyre

Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story That Changed the Course of World War II

Ben Macintyre

432 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced

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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 sets off a train of events that would change the course of the Second World War.Operation Mincemeat was the most successful warti...

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