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This is the true account of "Operation Mincemeat," a World War II British operation launched with the intention of feeding German intelligence with false information. The idea was to float a dead body up on to Spanish shores, complete with sensitive correspondence. The Man Who Never Was provides an exciting, firsthand account of how this peculiar counter-intelligence scheme came into being, the difficulties encountered, and the ultimate and unforeseen successes which the operation gained. Written in a period of forty-eight hours by the originator and coordinator of the operation in order to dispel myths circulated in a novel on the same subject, this book gives a fascinating insight into one of the most daring wartime operations in military history. 160 pages; 16 pages of b&w photos; 5.5 x 8 inches.
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During the Second World War, Ewen Montagu ran a highly secret sub-branch of the naval intelligence division at the Admiralty handling counter-espionage. He was present at the W board, the informal committee that ran the most secret intelligence war, and sat as the naval member of the XX committee which supervised the playing-back of captured Abwehr agents. At the end of the war he returned to law, becoming judge advocate of the fleet in 1945. In addition to The Man Who Never Was, he also published Beyond Top Secret U, a war autobiography explaining how much of his work had depended on the deciphering done at Bletchley Park
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During the Second World War, Ewen Montagu ran a highly secret sub-branch of the naval intelligence division at the Admiralty handling counter-espionage. He was present at the W board, the informal committee that ran the most secret intelligence war, and sat as the naval member of the XX committee which supervised the playing-back of captured Abwehr agents. At the end of the war he returned to law, becoming judge advocate of the fleet in 1945. In addition to The Man Who Never Was, he also published Beyond Top Secret U, a war autobiography explaining how much of his work had depended on the deciphering done at Bletchley Park
"...a splendid read about the most curious scheme of World War II." -- Nautical Magazine, February 2004
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- PublisherJ. B. Lippincott Co.
- Publication date1954
- ISBN 10 080948563X
- ISBN 13 9780809485635
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages160
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