How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victor
by Ben MacIntyre
Recommended by Alastair Humphreys
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in World War 2, History, and Nonfiction.
In 1943, from a windowless London basement office, two intelligence officers conceived a plan that was both simple & complicated?Operation Mincemeat. Purpose To deceive the Nazis into thinking the Allies were planning to attack Europe by way of Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily, as the Nazis had assumed & the Allies ultimately chose. Charles ...
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Alastair Humphreys
English cyclist, adventurer, author and motivational speaker
“I always enjoy those endofyear round up lists of 'Best Books', 'The Books I've Enjoyed This Year' and so on. So here is my contribution. Good books I have read recently”
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