Deathly Deception: The Real Story of Operation Mincemeat - Couverture souple

Smyth, Denis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 019960598X ISBN 13 : 9780199605989

Editeur : Oxford University Press, USA, 2011

Synopsis

In the pre-dawn darkness of April 30, 1943, a body disguised as a Royal Marine Major washed ashore on the coast of Spain, carrying false documents indicating that the Allies were set to launch an attack on Greece, rather than Sicily. Immortalized in the film The Man Who Never Was, Operation Mincemeat is renowned as the most spectacular episode in the annals of deception. In this accurate and in-depth retelling of the story, Denis Smyth draws on a vast collection of previously unavailable documentary sources to provide many key details overlooked in other accounts of Mincemeat. He reveals how the architects of the plan navigated a maze of medical, technical, and logistical issues to deceive the enemy at the highest strategic levels. Before planting the corpse in the Spanish coastal waters via a stealthy submarine operation, the planners not only gave their dead messenger a new military identity, but also a private one-as the fiancé of an attractive young woman named "Pam." Nazi intelligence was fooled, falling for a ruse which ultimately saved thousands of American lives.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Denis Smyth studied for his Ph.D. in History at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Sir Harry Hinsley, official historian of British intelligence in the Second World War. He lectured in Modern European History at University College, Cork from 1976 to 1985, and has been a Professor in the Department of History, and in the International Relations Programme, at the University of Toronto since 1985. His previous publications have dealt with the diplomacy and strategy of the Great Powers during the twentieth century and he has edited a number of volumes in the British Documents on Foreign Affairs series.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, USA
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 019960598X
• ISBN 13: 9780199605989
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 390
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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