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

Name: Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
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Rating: 4.4 (6603 reviews)
Author: Ben Macintyre

by Ben Macintyre

Memoir

4.4 (6,603)

4.4 stars from 6,603 reviews. One of the highest rated Memoir books we track.

416 pages~6.9 hr readPublished by Random House AudioPublished 2010-01-01

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Perfect for you if...

You love WWII history but want something stranger than the usual spy narratives.
You enjoy meticulous true crime storytelling where the plan itself is the protagonist.
You've watched the Netflix film and want the full, brilliantly detailed backstory that the screen couldn't quite capture.

Maybe not for you if...

You prefer lean, breakneck narratives without the careful setup of how wartime bureaucracy actually functioned.
You're looking for a soldier's memoir or boots-on-the-ground combat accounts.
You want high body counts and pitched battles rather than a meditation on deception and intelligence work.

About this book

Near the end of World War II, two British naval officers devised a scheme to deceive Nazi armies about where the Allies would attack in southern Europe. Their plan relied on an unconventional secret agent: a dead man. British officials planted the body, dressed in a British military uniform and carrying a briefcase with false intelligence documents, in Nazi territory. Ben Macintyre chronicles what happened after this deception was set in motion. The operation fooled Hitler into repositioning his military forces, which helped clear the path for the Allies' advance toward victory. The book documents this unusual World War II deception operation and its strategic consequences.

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