The incredibly story of how a Welshman's body was used to fool the Germans during the Second World War has now been told in a new film. Operation Mincemeat, which has been shown in movie theatres across the UK, stars Hollywood actors Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen.
The film tells the true story of Operation Mincemeat, which was a deception effort to keep plans for the Allied Invasion of Sicily in 1943 a secret. During the planning of the operation, two members of the British intelligence - Rear Admiral John Godfrey (played by Firth) and his personal assistant, Lieutenant Commander and James Bond author, Ian Flemming (played by Macfadyen), obtain the body of a Welsh homeless man called Glyndwr Michael.
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