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Zustand: Very Good. First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. (operation mincemeat, world war 2).
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, Oxford, 2010
ISBN 10: 0199233985 ISBN 13: 9780199233984
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
EUR 10,89
Anzahl: 4 verfügbar
In den WarenkorbPaperback. Zustand: Very Good. Deathly Deception tells the true story of the classic World War Two intelligence plan to pass misleading strategic information to Hitler and his Generals that was immortalized in the 1956 Hollywood film The Man Who Never Was. Drawing on a wealth of recently available documentation, Denis Smyth shows how British deceptioneers solved a multitude of medical, technical, and logistical problems to implement their deceptive design. The aim of their covert plan was to persuade the German High Command that the Allies were going to attack Greece, rather than Sicily in the summer of 1943. To achieve this, they equipped a dead body with a new military identity as a Royal Marine Major, a new private personality as the fiance of an attractive young woman named 'Pam', and a government briefcase containing deceptive documents. They then planted the corpse in south-western Spanish coastal waters via a stealthy submarine operation, and carefully monitored (through their codebreakers and spies) how the Nazi intelligence services and their warlords proceeded to 'swallow Mincemeat whole'. The result was a stunning success. The German mis-deployment of their forces to meet the notional Anglo-American threat to Greece materially contributed to the Allied victory in Sicily - which, in its turn, drove Mussolini from power in Italy and inflicted irreparable damage on the German war effort. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: New York : Oxford University Press, 2010
ISBN 10: 0199233985 ISBN 13: 9780199233984
Anbieter: MW Books, New York, NY, USA
Erstausgabe
First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; (xx, 367 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations. Subjects; Deception Great Britain History 20th century. Deception Spain Atlantic Coast History 20th century. World War, 1939-1945 Spain Atlantic Coast. World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Italy Sicily. 3 Kg.
Anbieter: Barksdale Books, Almere, Niederlande
Zustand: Good. Original black boards, dust jacket, illustrated with b/w photographs, 8vo.; Worn dust jacket.
Anbieter: Barksdale Books, Almere, Niederlande
Zustand: Good. Original black boards, dust jacket, illustrated with b/w photographs, 8vo.