Operation Mincemeat

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

Ben Macintyre recounts the British intelligence operation known as Mincemeat, carried out during the Second World War. British officers planted false documents on a corpse to persuade Nazi Germany that the Allies would invade Greece and Sardinia rather than Sicily. The book follows the planners, the deception itself, and the operation's consequences for the Allied invasion of southern Europe.

by Ben Macintyre

Harmony Books · First published 2010 · 400 pages