In April, 1943 a fisherman finds the body of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain. This is the start of a train of events that changed the course of the Second World War.
Operation Mincemeat was a wartime deception – the most successful, and strangest, ever attempted. It fooled the Nazi espionage chiefs, sent German troops hurtling in the wrong direction, and saved thousands of lives. All thanks to a secret agent who was different from any spy ever deployed as he was dead. His mission was to convince the Germans that the Allies were planning to invade Greece rather than attack Sicily.
This is the true story of the most extraordinary deception ever planned by Churchill’s intelligence officers and the audacious lie that travelled from a Whitehall basement all the way to Hitler’s desk.
