Operation Mincemeat : the true spy story that changed the course of World War II
Macintyre, Ben, 1963-2010
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One April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and set in train a course of events that would change the course of the Second World War. Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and certainly the strangest.
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London : Bloomsbury, 2010.
Collation:
xiii, 400 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781408806005 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.548641940.548641
Local class:
940.548641
Language:
English
Related title:
Operation Mincemeat [electronic resource] : the true spy story that changed the course of World War II
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BRN:
316427