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

from marshapetry

Excellent book, excellent narrator (audiobook). Highly recommend for people interested in WWII. This was another case of "Don't judge a book by it's cover". I had put this book off for a long time because the name "Mincement" and, essentially - the cover -, didn't seem very interesting; once agai...

from MerryMary

I discovered The Man Who Never Was by Ewen Montagu many years ago, and thoroughly enjoyed it. It seemed to be the ultimate true spy story, and I was impressed by the meticulous attention to detail in creating the personae of "William Martin." (For those unfamiliar with the story, a dead body dres...

from AliceaP

Reading Operation Mincemeat has just convinced me that there are 1. Many more spy novels out there that I have yet to read (example: Ian Fleming) and 2. My obsession with World War II is completely justified because it was so convoluted, intriguing, and shrouded in secrecy (many of these secrets ...

from nosajeel

A consistently entertaining and enlightening book about "Operation Mincemeat," the British World War II deception that planted a dead body with forged papers claiming (contrary to reality) that the Anglo-US forces were going to invade Greece, not Sicily. In large part due to this deception, the G...

from AliceaP

Reading Operation Mincemeat has just convinced me that there are 1. Many more spy novels out there that I have yet to read (example: Ian Fleming) and 2. My obsession with World War II is completely justified because it was so convoluted, intriguing, and shrouded in secrecy (many of these secrets ...