Operation Mincemeat : death, deception, and the Mediterranean D-Day
Smyth, Denis, 1948-2010
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This is the story of the classic World War Two stratagem which persuaded Hitler's Generals that the Allies were going to attack Greece rather than Sicily in the summer of 1943 - a brilliant intelligence coup that materially contributed to the Allied victory in Sicily and inflicted irreparable damage on the German war effort.
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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320 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780199233984 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.548641940.5486A940.548641
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English
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BRN:
260704