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Cargando... The Man Who Never Was (1953)por Ewen Montagu
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Published in 1953, this is the account of Operation Mincemeat by a man involved in the deception from the very beginning, when a chat between two colleagues threw up the wild idea of misleading the German High Command about the Allied invasion of Sicily by planting fake documents on a dead body. The same story was covered in Ben MacIntyre's breathlessly dramatic Operation Mincemeat, but because Montagu is an insider this book has a different slant and we're with him as he wades through the operational difficulties, from finding a suitable body, through dealing with the conflicting opinions of his superiors, establishing a background for the pretend Major Martin and ultimately delivering the Major to the coast of Spain. All the way through, Montagu can barely believe that the plan is working. ( ) I CANNOT wait to read this again! This is one of the (very) few books I actually read when I was young. I remember finding it in an upstairs bedroom at my grandfather's house and reading it. The cover illustration has always stuck in my mind along with the mission name (Operation: MINCEMEAT). My recently piqued interest in WWII and desire to find books from my past caused me to search and purchase this from the web ($.75!) Can't wait to crack it open again! From vintage scholastic cover: How to suceed in business without really spying: 1. Take one anonymous corpse--give him the identity of a supposed Major of the Royal Marines bearing "top secret" messages; 2. Cast him from asubmarine into the sea just of the coast of Spain; 3. Sit back and wait for the body to be discovered by the Spanish and the messages turned over to the Germans; 4. Then watch the enemy-right up to the High Command--fooled into changing their Mediterranean defense plans! RESULT: Spectacular success...and one of the most startling and entralling true tales to come out of World War II. ---With a forward by Lord Ismay, G.C.B.,C.H.,D.S.O. The true account of an operation carried out by British Navy Intelligence in 1942-1943. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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As plans got under way for the Allied invasion of Sicily in June 1943, British counter-intelligence agent Ewen Montagu masterminded a scheme to mislead the Germans into thinking the next landing would occur in Greece. The innovative plot was so successful that the Germans moved some of their forces away from Sicily, and two weeks into the real invasion still expected an attack in Greece. This extraordinary operation called for a dead body, dressed as a Royal Marine officer and carrying false information about a pending Allied invasion of Greece, to wash up on a Spanish shore near the town of a No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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