Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory Read Free

help and advice, some of it solicited: James Harding, Keith Blackmore, Alex O’Connell, Mike Evans, Richard Beeston, and many others. I have Duncan Stewart to thank, once again, for the fine maps and diagrams.
My thanks to John Glusman and the team at Harmony for all their help and support. Ed Victor has been my rock for every one of my last seven books. My friends and family have put up with me banging on about Operation Mincemeat for three years. My thanks and gratitude to them. And for Kate, as ever, all my love.

Notes
    Epigraph

    1 “Who in war will not have”: Winston Churchill, Closing the Ring , p. 91.
    Preface

    1 “some memoranda which”: Ewen Montagu, Beyond Top Secret Ultra (London, 1977), p. 14.

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