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1408809214
Operation Mincemeat; the true spy story that changed the course of World War II

Publication year: 2010
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Edition: [New] ed
Classification: 940.548
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9781408809211 1408809214
Description:
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.
Additional information: xiii, 414 p., [16] p. of plates, 20 cm
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This is a really well put together account of an incredible true story. Interesting, suspenseful and funny.
30/06/20
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