{"product_id":"9781037210020","title":"Operation Mincemeat : Dyslexia-Friendly Edition","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Ben Macintyre\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eSpain\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 8 September 2026 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 864 pages\u003cbr\u003e234 x 154 | 980g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDYSLEXIA-FRIENDLY EDITIONTHE SUNDAY TIMES NO 1. BESTSELLER'Astonishing . . . Sheds riveting new light on this breathtaking plan' Daily Mail'A rollicking read' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'Brilliant and almost absurdly entertaining' Malcolm Gladwell, New YorkerApril, 1943: a sardine fisherman spots the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and sets off a train of events that would change the course of the Second World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOperation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted. It hoodwinked the Nazi espionage chiefs and saved thousands of lives by deploying a secret agent who was different from any spy before or since: he was dead. His mission: to convince the Germans that instead of attacking Sicily, the Allied armies planned to invade Greece.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe brainchild of an eccentric RAF officer and a brilliant Jewish barrister, the great hoax involved an extraordinary cast of characters including a famous forensic pathologist, a gold-prospector, an inventor, a beautiful secret service secretary, a submarine captain, three novelists, an irascible admiral who loved fly-fishing, and a dead Welsh tramp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the true story of the most extraordinary deception ever planned by Churchill's spies: an outrageous lie that travelled from a Whitehall basement all the way to Hitler's desk.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49599226380547,"sku":"9781037210020","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781037210020.jpg?v=1789033072","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.pro\/products\/9781037210020","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}