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BOOK REVIEW: Operation Mincemeat

How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory

Author: Ben MacIntyre

The British “Section 17M” concocted a plan to plant false information on a dead body.

It would drift it into Spain and allow the German spies to act on the papers showing the Allies would land in the Balkans in 1943 and that Sicily (Operation Husky) would be a sideshow.

A movie — The Man Who Never Was — was made of a book by the same name, but here’s an expansive look at how it all worked out.

Enjoyed it.

–Reviewed by Russ Lockwood

 

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