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The story behind 'Operation Mincemeat', arguably the most successful and audacious wartime deception ever attempted.
List of contents
Acknowledgements xiii
Foreword xv
A Note on the Situation Confronting the Axis in the Mediterranean in the Spring of 1943, by Field-Marshal Kesselring xix
List of Illustrations xxv
1 How the Quest Began 1
2 The Traces in Madrid 11
3 The Rock of Gibraltar 23
4 The Seville Dancers 39
5 The Grave in Huelva 51
6 The Quest in London 63
7 A Short History of Plant Life 75
8 Meeting the Hush Men 91
9 Seeing the Evidence 103
10 Major Martin's Last Voyage 137
11 Hitler Hears about Major Martin 155
12 Conclusions 169
13 Post Mortem 177
Appendix 181
Bibliography 199
Index 201
About the author
Ian Colvin: Ian Colvin was a journalist and author. As a journalist he began his career on the News Chronicle in Berlin, from where he was expelled by the Nazis in 1939. During the 1950s and 1960s Colvin worked as a foreign correspondent in Africa and the Middle East for the Daily Telegraph. At the time of his death in 1975, he was the Telegraph's chief leader writer and roving foreign correspondent.
Summary
The Unkown Courier tells the true story of the events that inspired Ben MacIntyre's bestselling Operation Mincemeat. When British Intelligence mislead German High Command by planting a corpse with false top secret plans, it achieved one of the greatest wartime deceptions in history and changed the course of World War Two.
