Operation Mincemeat

This narrative history reconstructs the 1943 British deception that used a corpse, false papers, and a fabricated identity to persuade German intelligence that the Allies would invade Sardinia and Greece rather than Sicily. MacIntyre follows the naval and intelligence officers who planned the drop off Spain, the real man whose body was used, the Spanish and German officials who handled the papers, and the campaign that followed. The book is documentary reconstruction from files and memoirs, not a novel. It treats the operation as a piece of wartime theatre whose success depended on what enemy readers were ready to believe.

Quarter-bound in black cloth with printed and blocked brown paper sides. Black endpapers printed in white with text. Brown slipcase printed with typewriter text.