Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre PDF Free

In 1943, from a windowless London basement office, two intelligence officers conceived a plan that was both simple and u0026 complicated–Operation Mincemeat. Purpose? To deceive the Nazis into thinking the Allies were planning to attack Europe by way of Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily, as the Nazis had assumed and u0026 the Allies ultimately chose. Charles Cholmondeley of MI5 and u0026 the British naval intelligence officer Ewen Montagu were very different. Cholmondeley was a dreamer seeking adventure. Montagu was an aristocratic, detail-oriented barrister. A perfect team, they created an ingenious plan: equip a corpse with secret (but false) papers concerning the invasion, then drop it off the coast of Spain where German spies would hopefully take the bait. The idea was approved by British intelligence officials, including Ian Fleming (007’s creator). Winston Churchill believed it might ring true to the Axis and u0026 help bring victory.Filled with spies, double agents, rogues, heroes and u0026 a corpse, the story of Operation Mincemeat reads like an international thriller. Unveiling never-before-released material, Macintyre goes into the minds of intelligence officers, their moles and u0026 spies, and u0026 the German Abwehr agents who suffered the “twin frailties of wishfulness and u0026 yesmanship.” He weaves together the eccentric personalities of Cholmondeley and u0026 Montagu and u0026 their improbable feats into an adventure that saved thousands and u0026 paved the way for the conquest of Sicily.