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Operation Mincemeat, how a dead man and a bizarre plan fooled the Nazis and assured an Allied victory, Ben Macintyre

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Operation Mincemeat, how a dead man and a bizarre plan fooled the Nazis and assured an Allied victory, Ben Macintyre
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Operation Mincemeat
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Ben Macintyre
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how a dead man and a bizarre plan fooled the Nazis and assured an Allied victory
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In 1943, from a windowless basement office in London, two brilliant intelligence officers conceived a plan that was both simple and complicated-- Operation Mincemeat. The purpose? To deceive the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily, as the Nazis had assumed, and the Allies ultimately chose
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