Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre (Book Beginnings & Friday 56)

Title: Operation Mincemeat

Author: Ben Macintyre

Publication: 4 May 2010/reprint: 5 April 2011

Format: paperback & Kindle ebook

Amazon Description: 

The “brilliant and almost absurdly entertaining” (Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker) true story of the most successful—and certainly the strangest—deception carried out in World War II, from the acclaimed author of The Spy and the Traitor

“Pure catnip to fans of World War II thrillers and a lot of fun for everyone else.”—Joseph Kanon, The Washington Post Book World

Near the end of World War II, two British naval officers came up with a brilliant and slightly mad scheme to mislead the Nazi armies about where the Allies would attack southern Europe. To carry out the plan, they would have to rely on the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man.

Ben Macintyre’s dazzling, critically acclaimed bestseller chronicles the extraordinary story of what happened after British officials planted this dead body—outfitted in a British military uniform with a briefcase containing false intelligence documents—in Nazi territory, and how this secret mission fooled Hitler into changing military positioning, paving the way for the Allies’ drive to victory.

Ramble-y Teaserish Stuff

This is going to take me a while to get through. 

This is not a fluff cozy. 

It's not even fiction..... entirely.

It is most definitely intense and not at all something that I want to try and read while otherwise distracted with things like work -- hence why I'm only on the third chapter right now. I did, of course, jump ahead to find the perfect "56" which ended up coming on page 256 of my paperback. 

There is a Netflix movie based on the book that I'll watch once I'm done. The cast is amazing, of course, and so far so is the book -- even only three chapters and a blurb in.

 

 

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Friday 56 (share a blurb from the 56th page or 56% mark) is hosted at Freda's Voice 

& Book Beginnings (share the first few sentences) is at Rose City Reader