In 1943, two brilliant intelligence officers conceived a plan that was dubbed Operation Mincemeat. They would trick the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece rather than Sicily. Charles Cholmondeley of MI5 and British naval intelligence officer Ewen Montagu were opposites in every way, but together, they were perfection. Their plan was to get a corpse, equip it with misleading papers concerning the invasion, then drop it off the coast of Spain where German spies would take the bait. Filled with spies, double agents, rogues, fearless heroes, and one very important corpse, the story of Operation Mincemeat reads like an international thriller, and unveils never-before-released material. Ben Macintyre brings the reader right into the minds of intelligence officers, their moles and spies, and the German agents who suffered the "twin frailties of wishfulness and yesmanship." Ben Macintyre's Agent Zigzag was hailed as "rollicking, spellbinding" (New York Times), and, quite simply, "the best book ever written" (Boston Globe). In his new book, Operation Mincemeat, Macintyre tells an extraordinary story that will delight his legions of fans. Book jacket.