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2. The Man Who Never Was (book) - Wikipedia

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   The Man Who Never Was is a 1953 book by Ewen Montagu about the World War II Operation Mincemeat. Montagu played a leading role in the 1943 scheme to deceive the Germans about the planned Allied invasion of Sicily. The scheme entailed releasing a dead body just off the coast of Spain, where strong currents caused it to drift ashore in an area ...

3. Operation Mincemeat - Wikipedia

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   Operation Mincemeat was a successful British deception operation of the Second World War to disguise the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily.Two members of British intelligence obtained the body of Glyndwr Michael, a tramp who died from eating rat poison, dressed him as an officer of the Royal Marines and placed personal items on him identifying him as the fictitious Captain (Acting Major) William ...

4. Ewen Montagu - Wikipedia

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   Ewen Edward Samuel Montagu CBE QC DL (29 March 1901 – 19 July 1985) was a British judge, Naval intelligence officer, and author.. He is best known for his leading role in Operation Mincemeat, a critical military deception operation that misdirected German forces' attention away from the Allied invasion of Sicily ("Operation Husky").

5. Category:Operation Mincemeat - Wikipedia

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   Download as PDF; Printable version; ... (book) The Man Who Never Was ... Ewen Montagu; O. Operation Mincemeat (film) Operation Mincemeat (musical) Operation Waterfall ...

6. Bill Jewell - Wikipedia

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   It became the subject of several books, and two films, The Man Who Never Was and Operation Mincemeat. The ruse involved dropping a corpse , dressed in a Royal Marines major's uniform, with a briefcase chained to its wrist stuffed with "secret" papers containing disinformation, into the Mediterranean near the coast of Spain, a neutral but Axis ...

7. ‘Operation Mincemeat’ Review: Colin Firth and Matthew ...

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   Operation Mincemeat was an aptly absurd code name for what was, on the face of it, a preposterous British military mission: In 1943, with Allied forces planning to invade Sicily and wrest it from ...

8. ‘Operation Mincemeat’ Review: Hilarious Small-Scale Musical ...

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   Making a song-n-dance show out of a real-life, stiff-upper-lip, British World War II intelligence operation sounds like a mad idea until you hear the bonkers details of the actual story.

9. The Man Who Never Was - Wikipedia

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   Operation Mincemeat involved the acquisition and dressing up of a human cadaver as a "Major William Martin, R.M." and using the submarine HMS Seraph to put it into the sea near Huelva, Spain. Attached to the dead body was a briefcase containing fake letters falsely stating that the Allied attack would be against Sardinia and Greece rather than ...