A review by lesserjoke
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Ben Macintyre

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.