Deathly deception : the real story of Operation Mincemeat / Denis Smyth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smyth, Denis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Operation Mincemeat.

World War, 1939-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Deathly Deception tells the true story of the classic World War Two intelligence plan to pass misleading strategic information to Hitler and his Generals that was immortalized in the 1956 Hollywood film The Man Who Never Was. Drawing on a wealth of recently available documentation, Denis Smyth shows how British deceptioneers solved a multitude of medical, technical, and logistical problems to implement their deceptive design. The aim of their covert plan was to persuade the German High Command that the Allies were going to attack Greece, rather than Sicily in the summer of 1943. To achieve thi

Contents:

Contents; List of Plates; List of Abbreviations; Prologue; 1. Accidental Conception; 2. Medical Consultation; 3. Grand Stratagem; 4. A Sea of Troubles; 5. Loud and Clear; 6. Tailor-Made; 7. Brief Encounter; 8. Travel Arrangements; 9. Mincemeat Digested; 10. Mincemeat Dissected; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-77496-4

9786612774966

0-19-157617-4

OCLC:

669490587