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The "Operation Mincemeat" is the true story of the most incredible deception ever devised by Churchill's spies - a scandalous lie that made its way to Hitler's desk.
It is April 1943, and a fisherman spots a body floating off the coast of Spain. It is soon determined to be that of a British major, carrying highly classified Allied invasion plans. Except the major never existed... The body belonged to a dead homeless man, and all the documents are fake.
This well-crafted trap, bait for the Nazis, fooled the heads of German counterintelligence, sent German troops wandering in the wrong directions, and saved thousands of lives by convincing the Germans that, instead of Sicily, Allied forces were planning to invade Greece... An exhilarating espionage story based on true events!
The war, now in its fourth year, had not really touched this part of Spain. Sometimes José had encountered strange flotsam in the water, pieces of charred wood, oil slicks, and other debris that hinted at battles far away at sea...
It was mid-morning when José noticed an "amorphous mass" above the surface of the water... It was a body, floating face down and held at the surface by a yellow life jacket, the lower part of the torso invisible. It appeared to be dressed in a uniform...
Two months earlier, in a small smoky basement room beneath the Admiralty building in Whitehall, two men were puzzling over a riddle of their own invention: how to create a person out of nowhere, a man who had never existed.
Manufacturer
- Author
- Ben Macintyre
- Publisher
- Kleidarithmos
- Skroutz Book Awards 2025
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- Type
- Testimonial
- Theme
- World History
- Language
- Greek
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 592
- Release Date
- 6/2012
- Publication Date
- 2012
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789604614998
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