![]() Operation Mincemeat is the incredible 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. The body is that of a dead Welsh tramp and every single document is fake. ![]() A leather attach case, secured to his belt, reveals an intelligence goldmine: top-secret documents Allied invasion plans. When the body is brought ashore, he is identified as a British soldier, Major William Martin of the Royal Marines. ![]() Operation Mincemeat:One overcast April morning in 1943, a fisherman notices a corpse floating in the sea off the coast of Spain. Ben Macintyre weaves together diaries, letters, photographs, memories and top-secret MI5 files to create the exhilarating account of Britain's most sensational double agent. Dashing and louche, courageous and unpredictable, inside the traitor was a hero, inside the villain, a man of conscience: the problem for Chapman, his many lovers and his spymasters, was knowing where one ended and the other began. ![]() ![]() His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5's Agent Zigzag. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. Agent Zigzag: One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. ![]()
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