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Dec 3, 2010 · Michael/Martin was but a prop in Operation Mincemeat, brainchild of Ian Fleming, and put into action by Cholmondeley and Montagu, Churchill's "corkscrew thinkers" in the War Office.
Jun 5, 2013 · During World War II, British intelligence officers managed to pull off one of the most successful wartime deceptions ever achieved: Operation Mincemeat. In April 1943, a decomposing corpse was ...
Apr 19, 2022 · Author and historian Ben Macintyre's gripping 2010 account of the story is now the basis of a film, also called Operation Mincemeat, directed by John Madden, of Shakespeare in Love and The Best ...
More recently, Macintyre’s 2010 book became the basis for the 2022 film Operation Mincemeat. Many aspects of Mincemeat were kept classified and omitted from Montagu’s book and the subsequent 1956 movie. It was not until 1997 that Major Martin’s real identity was revealed when the Commonwealth War Graves Commission added Glyndwr Michael ...
Operation Mincemeat was a deception conceived by British Intelligence to fool the Germans regarding the true target for the Allied invasion of Sicily. A dead body would be ‘planted’ off the coast of Spain carrying secret documents which purported to reveal that the targets for the forthcoming invasion would be Greece and Sardinia, with ...
Apr 14, 2022 · Historian Ben Macintyre's book, Operation Mincemeat, has now been made into a film by Warner Brothers and is due for release on Good Friday. "Glyndwr Michael is possibly the most unlikely hero of ...
WW2. In the early hours of the morning of April 30th 1943, a British submarine surfaced off the coast of Spain near the port of Huelva. It carried a very unusual cargo – a sealed canister containing the body of a deceased officer. Attached to his belt was a briefcase containing a letter that, were it to fall into the wrong hands, would reveal ...
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