TY - BOOK AU - Macintyre,Ben TI - Operation Mincemeat: how a dead man and a bizarre plan fooled the Nazis and assured an allied victory SN - 0307453278 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Harmony Books KW - Montagu, Ewen, KW - Great Britain KW - Royal Navy KW - History KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Deception KW - 20th century KW - Spain KW - Atlantic Coast KW - Operation Mincemeat KW - Campaigns KW - Italy KW - Sicily KW - Secret service KW - Atlantic Coast (Spain) KW - History, Military KW - Sicily (Italy) N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - From the acclaimed author of "Agent Zigzag" comes an extraordinary account of the most successful deception--and certainly the strangest--ever carried out in World War II, one that changed the prospects for an Allied victory. The purpose of the plan--code named Operation Mincemeat--was to deceive the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily, as the Nazis had assumed, and the Allies ultimately chose ER -