Operation Mincemeat The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II (Бен Макинтайр); Ballantine Books, 2016

April, 1943: a sardine fisherman spots the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and sets off a train 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. It hoodwinked the Nazi espionage chiefs, sent German troops hurtling in the wrong direction, and saved thousands of lives by deploying a secret agent who was different, in one crucial respect, from any spy before or since: he was dead. His mission: to convince the Germans that instead of attacking Sicily, the Allied armies planned to invade Greece.

The brainchild of an eccentric RAF officer and a brilliant Jewish barrister, the great hoax involved an extraordinary cast of characters including a famous forensic pathologist, a gold-prospector, an inventor, a beautiful secret service secretary, a submarine captain, three novelists, an irascible admiral who loved fly-fishing, and a dead Welsh tramp.

This is the true story of the most extraordinary deception ever planned by Churchill's spies: an outrageous lie that travelled from a Whitehall basement all the way to Hitler's desk.

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	978-1-40-888539-0
Автор(ы)	Бен Макинтайр
Автор	Ben Macintyre
Вес	0.33кг
Возрастное ограничение	12+
Год издания	2016
Издатель	Ballantine Books
Издательство	Bloomsbury Publishing
Кол-во страниц	414
Количество страниц	414
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Переплет	Мягкий переплёт
Переплёт	мягкий
Раздел	Книги на английском языке
Размеры	12,70 см × 19,70 см × 2,70 см
Страниц	414
Тематика	Другие издания
Формат	127x197мм