In 1943, from a windowless basement office in London, two brilliant intelligence officers conceived a plan that was both simple and complicated- Operation Mincemeat.

In his new book, Operation Mincemeat, he tells an extraordinary story that will delight his legions of fans. 1 bestsellers, Ben Macintyre weaves together diaries, letters, photographs, memories and top-secret MI5 files into exhilarating accounts of undercover daring and deceit.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). It was the most extraordinary deception ever planned by Churchill's spies, and an outrageous lie that travelled all the way to Hitler's desk.In these two Sunday Times No. The body is that of a dead tramp and every single document is fake. A leather attache case, secured to his belt, reveals an intelligence gold mine: top-secret Allies' invasion plans. The problem for Chapman, his many lovers and his spymasters, was knowing where one ended and the other began.Operation MincemeatIn April 1943, a corpse later identified as Major William Martin of the Royal Marines is discovered floating in the sea off the coast of Spain. Dashing and louche, courageous and unpredictable, inside the traitor was a hero inside the villain, a man of conscience.

His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5's Agent Zigzag. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. Two critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling tales of World War II espionage from the master of suspense, Ben MacintyreAgent ZigzagOne December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. The problem for Chapman, his many lovers and his.

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