Operation mincemeat : how a dead man and a bizzre plan fooled the nazis and assured an allies victory
Title
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Operation mincemeat : how a dead man and a bizzre plan fooled the nazis and assured an allies victory
Personal Author EPSB
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Ben. MacIntyre
Summary
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Near the end of World War II, two British naval officers came up with a brilliant and slightly mad scheme to mislead the Nazi armies about where the Allies would attack southern Europe. To carry out the plan, they would have to rely on the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man. Ben Macintyre’s dazzling, critically acclaimed bestseller chronicles the extraordinary story of what happened after British officials planted this dead body—outfitted in a British military uniform with a briefcase containing false intelligence documents—in Nazi territory, and how this secret mission fooled Hitler into changing military positioning, paving the way for the Allies’ drive to victory.
Year Published
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2020,
2010
Physical Description
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432 pages
Subject
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World War, 1939-1945.
Espionage.
Summary
:
Near the end of World War II, two British naval officers came up with a brilliant and slightly mad scheme to mislead the Nazi armies about where the Allies would attack southern Europe. To carry out the plan, they would have to rely on the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man. Ben Macintyre’s dazzling, critically acclaimed bestseller chronicles the extraordinary story of what happened after British officials planted this dead body—outfitted in a British military uniform with a briefcase containing false intelligence documents—in Nazi territory, and how this secret mission fooled Hitler into changing military positioning, paving the way for the Allies’ drive to victory.
ISBN
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9780771055799
Publisher
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[Toronto] : Signal, 2020
©2010
Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
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Edmonton Christian High | 940.54 MAC | Book | 30905000122816 | Non-Fiction |