{"product_id":"operation-mincemeat-the-true-spy-story-that-changed-the-course-of-world-war-ii","title":"Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE SUNDAY TIMES NO 1. BESTSELLER\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Astonishing . . . Sheds riveting new light on this breathtaking plan' Daily Mail\u003cbr\u003e\n'A rollicking read' Max Hastings, Sunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\n'Brilliant and almost absurdly entertaining' Malcolm Gladwell, New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\n____________________\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eApril, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOperation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted. It hoodwinked the Nazi espionage chiefs and saved thousands of lives by deploying a secret agent who was different 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe brainchild of an eccentric RAF officer and a brilliant Jewish barrister, the great hoax involved an extraordinary cast of characters including a famous forensic pathologist, a gold-prospector, an inventor, a beautiful secret service secretary, a submarine captain, three novelists, an irascible admiral who loved fly-fishing, and a dead Welsh tramp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT-BOOK","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":54016557220208,"sku":"978-1526682574","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/8543\/8576\/files\/ebook_8322_491c93a619.jpg?v=1783671820","url":"https:\/\/antbook.store\/de\/products\/operation-mincemeat-the-true-spy-story-that-changed-the-course-of-world-war-ii","provider":"ANTBOOK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}