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Operation Mincemeat
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Operation Mincemeat (2010) (edit title/settings)

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

by Ben Macintyre (Author) (edit contributors)

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Ben Macintyre’s Agent Zigzag was hailed as “rollicking, spellbinding” ( New York Times ), “wildly improbable but entirely true” ( Entertainment Weekly ), and, quite simply, “the best book ever written” ( Boston Globe ). In his new book, Operation Mincemeat , he tells an extraordinary story... read more

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Wonderful a must read for anyone intrested in WW!!.

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Jose Antonio Rey Maria had no intention of making history when he rowed out into the Atlantic from the coast of Andalusia in southwest Spain on April 30, 1943.

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Preface
Chapter One: The Sardine Spotter
Chapter Two: Corkscrew Minds
Chapter Three: Room 13
Chapter Four: Target Sicily
Chapter Five: The man Who Was
Chapter Six: A Novel Approach
Chapter Seven: Pam
Chapter Eight: The Butterfly Collector
Chapter Nine: My Dear Alex
Chapter Ten: Table-Tennis Traitor
Chapter Eleven: Gold Prospector
Chapter Twelve: The Spy Who Baked Cakes
Chapter Thirteen: Mincemeat Sets Sail
Chapter Fourteen: Bill's Farewell
Chapter Fifteen: Dulce et Decorum
Chapter Sixteen: Spanish Trails
Chapter Seventeen: Kuhlenthal's Coup
Chapter Eighteen: Mincemeat Digested
Chapter Nineteen: Hitler Loses Sleep
Chapter Twenty: Seraph and Husky
Chapter Twenty-One: A Nice Cup of Tea
Chapter Twenty-Two: Hook, Line, and Sinker
Chapter Twenty-Three: Mincemeat Revealed
Chapter Twenty-Four: Aftermath

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Appendix
Acknowledgments
Notes
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Index

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  1. Ben Macintyre (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Crown
Country: USA (originally in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc)
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-307-45328-0
Page Count: 416

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  • Library of Congress: D810.S7 M246 2010
  • Dewey: 940

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