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Operation Mincemeat
- How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
- Narrateur(s): John Lee
- Durée: 11 h et 18 min
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Ben Macintyre’s Agent Zigzag was hailed as “rollicking, spellbinding” (New York Times), “wildly improbable but entirely true” (Entertainment Weekly), and, quite simply, “the best book ever written” (Boston Globe). In his new book, Operation Mincemeat, he tells an extraordinary story that will delight his legions of fans.
In 1943, from a windowless basement office in London, two brilliant intelligence officers conceived a plan that was both simple and complicated - Operation Mincemeat. The purpose? To deceive the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack Southern Europe by way of Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily, as the Nazis had assumed, and the Allies ultimately chose. Charles Cholmondeley of MI5 and the British naval intelligence officer Ewen Montagu could not have been more different. Cholmondeley was a dreamer seeking adventure. Montagu was an aristocratic, detail-oriented barrister. But together they were the perfect team and created an ingenious plan: Get a corpse, equip it with secret (but false and misleading) papers concerning the invasion, then drop it off the coast of Spain where German spies would, they hoped, take the bait. The idea was approved by British intelligence officials, including Ian Fleming (creator of James Bond). Winston Churchill believed it might ring true to the Axis and help bring victory to the Allies.
Filled with spies, double agents, rogues, fearless heroes, and one very important corpse, the story of Operation Mincemeat reads like an international thriller.
Unveiling never-before-released material, Ben Macintyre brings the listener right into the minds of intelligence officers, their moles, and spies, and the German Abwehr agents who suffered the “twin frailties of wishfulness and yesmanship”. He weaves together the eccentric personalities of Cholmondeley and Montagu and their near-impossible feats into a riveting adventure that not only saved thousands of lives but paved the way for a pivotal battle in Sicily and, ultimately, Allied success in the war.
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- fishface42
- 2021-03-14
Great story, brilliantly read
I have read all of Macintyre's works available on Audible, beginning with A Spy Among Friends. Each has held my attention throughout. The basic spy stories are fleshed out with detailed character studies of all involved so that they become an integral part of the fascination. Each book forms a history of the time and place. A wonderful bonus are the readings by John Lee, whom I slightly prefer to Macintyre's narration. (Sorry Ben.) Lee is animated without excess and his doing the accents of dialog is convincing and sometimes highly amusing. His Americans are totally convincing, as are his probable renderings of Russians, Spaniards, Germans etc. speaking English. Great read from every point of vantage.
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- Koreen Scott
- 2023-03-28
So informative, interesting and captive
Another excellent book by Ben McIntyre. The amount of research this author does is unfathomable and he manages to weave all of those facts into a compelling and fascinating story. This book has truly brought home to me the possibilities and value of the intelligence game. The narrator does a terrific job as well.
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- mike
- 2019-01-27
Very interesting story
I thought this book was really good, good writer, good story, and good reader. I'd recommend it to someone looking for a good listen.
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- Roberta W
- 2022-04-30
Many lives saved
Another great Ben Macintyre account of espionage, superbly narrated by John Lee. While the Mincemeat story has long been known, it was new to me, and absolutely fascinating. With unprecedented access, this is the full story, as not told before. Who knew the word ‘sardines’ could carry such weight?
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