![]() ![]() A nice cup of tea - Hook, line and sinker - 23. ![]() Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-386) and indexġ. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5's Agent Zigzag. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted and certainly the strangest. The purpose of the plan-code named Operation Mincemeat-was to deceive the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily, as the Nazis had assumed, and the Allies ultimately chose 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. Xiii, 400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 23 cmįrom the acclaimed author of "Agent Zigzag" comes an extraordinary account of the most successful deception-and certainly the strangest-ever carried out in World War II, one that changed the prospects for an Allied victory. Two critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling tales of World War II espionage from the master of suspense, Ben Macintyre Agent Zigzag One. ![]()
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