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Deathly deception : the real story of Operation Mincemeat
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smyth, Denis, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Operation Mincemeat.
- World War, 1939-1945--Great Britain.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Deception--History--Atlantic Coast--Spain.
- Deception.
- World War, 1939-1945--Sicily--Italy.
- Montagu, Ewen, 1901-1985.
- Montagu, Ewen.
- Great Britain. Royal Navy--History--World War, 1939-1945.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 367 p.) : ill.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Denis Smyth retells the story of the classic World War Two intelligence plan to pass misleading strategic information to Hitler and his Generals which was immortalised in the 1956 Hollywood film 'The Man Who Never Was'. Drawing on recently available documentation, this book shows how British deceptioneers solved a multitude of medical, technical, and logistical problems to implement their deceptive design.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-180462-2
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