Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Operation Mincemeat - reading

Finished "Operation Mincemeat" by Ben Macintyre. You could know this story as a paragraph you read on the web (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat) or as a mention in a documentary, or you can know it in detail from the people planning and executing the operation to the people who caused it to succeed. I liked the latter. This was a story about Operation Mincemeat, a WWII operation where a body with false intelligence was floated along the coast, picked up and channeled through Spanish officers and made their way to Berlin and to Hitler. The effect was that Hitler defended Greece and Sardinia more heavily allowing the allies to land on Sicily more easily and with fewer casualties on both sides.

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