Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II - Ben Macintyre (John Lee) [2010, MP3]

Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II

Year: 2010
Language: English
Author: Ben Macintyre
Performer (voice actor): John Lee
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Audio codec: MP3
Audio bitrate: 64 kbps
Description: Now a major film, starring Colin Firth, Matthew Mcfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Penelope Wilson, Johnny Flynn and Jason Isaacs.
A Richard and Judy Book Club selection.
A Sunday Times number one best seller.
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 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.
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.
Cover artwork courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures.
©2010 Ben Macintyre (P)2010 Random House
Critic Reviews
"A rollicking read for all those who enjoy a spy story so fanciful that Ian Fleming - himself an officer in Montagu's wartime department - would never have dared to invent it." (Max Hastings, Sunday Times)
"Brilliant and almost absurdly entertaining." (New Yorker)
"Astonishing.... Sheds riveting new light on this breath taking plan." (Daily