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The Man Who Never Was (Oxford Paperbacks) By Ewen Montagu
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- The Man Who Never Was (Oxford Paperbacks)
- ISBN
- 9780192853226
- Book Title
- Man Who Never Was
- Item Length
- 7.7 in
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 1996
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.4 in
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Europe / Italy, Military / World War II, Europe / Great Britain / General
- Item Width
- 5.1 in
- Item Weight
- 4.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 148 Pages
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This is the true account of an operation which took place between 1942 and 1943, at a time when the Allies were planning to invade Italy through Sicily. In order to distract German attention from the Sicilian invasion, "Operation Mincemeat" was launched with the intention of feeding German intelligence with false information. This theory was clearly not new, but the idea of accomplishing this by washing a dead body up on Spanish shores, complete with highly confidential and sensitive correspondence was audacious and innovative. The Man Who Never Was provides an exciting, firsthand account of how this peculiar counter-intelligence scheme came into being, the many unpredictable and often amusing difficulties which the agents encountered when inventing a whole life and persona for their "body," and the ultimate and unforseen successes which the opreation gained. Written in a period of forty-eight hours by the originator and coordinator of the operation in order to dispel myths circulated in a novel on the same subject, this book gives a fascinating insight into one of the most daring wartime operations in military history. A new Introduction explains how "Operation Mincemeat" fits into the broader history of wartime intelligence and deception, still classified when the book was originally published.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0192853228
ISBN-13
9780192853226
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1567385
Product Key Features
Book Title
Man Who Never Was
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Europe / Italy, Military / World War II, Europe / Great Britain / General
Publication Year
1996
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Number of Pages
148 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Item Weight
4.8 Oz
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Lc Classification Number
D810.S8m6 1996
Copyright Date
1996
Lccn
96-002643
Dewey Decimal
940.54/8141
Dewey Edition
23/Eng/20231129
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