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‘We wrote it living on Tesco sandwiches and anxiety attacks!’ How Operation Mincemeat conquered the world

It started out as a fringe musical about an outlandish war plan – and became a West End and Broadway smash. As the show hits China, Australia and Mexico, its ‘nerd’ creators explain how they went global with a box of hats and a dream

The Guardian - UK

Operation Mincemeat review – irrepressible wartime musical is a West End triumph

With gag-packed songs and gender-swapped roles, this fringe show about a secret service plot is a joyful success on the big stage

The Guardian - UK

Operation Mincemeat: ‘little victory’ for fringe theatre as musical marches into West End

SpitLip’s award-winning show, based on an audacious episode of wartime espionage, takes over from The Woman in Black at the Fortune theatre

The Guardian - UK

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Operation Mincemeat: the fringe hit musical lands in the West End at last

The production has proved a hit with fans and critics alike

Evening Standard

Operation Mincemeat stars Colin Firth in a straightforward retelling of a WWII strategy to trick Nazis with a decoy corpse

A grisly scenario is brought to life in this polite but predictable dramatic thriller — with lashings of pitch-black humour — from the director of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

ABC News

‘Operation Mincemeat’ review: How Colin Firth and company faked an invasion and helped win WWII, now on Netflix

With any war movie, the safe audience bet typically favors the immediate, graphic horrors of battle. That way, when you see a title such as “Hacksaw Ridge,” you know a director (in that case Mel Gibson) will be operating with a cinematic license to slaughter.

Chicago Tribune

Movie review: ‘Operation Mincemeat’ a nicely crafted telling of fascinating slice of British deception during World War II

It is said that dead men tell no tales.

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Operation Mincemeat Netflix: Bizarre true story of how a corpse fooled Hitler

Operation Mincemeat is a daring tale of wartime intrigue and deception. A film starring Colin Firth looks into the top-secret World War 2 operation that helped changed the course of the war

Daily Mirror

‘Operation Mincemeat’: A dead body dupes the Nazis in stylish film that’s sometimes heavy, sometimes crazy

The changes in tone work as a British officer (Colin Firth) uses a ridiculous plan to save thousands of lives.

Chicago Sun-Times

Operation Mincemeat review – Blimpish take on Ben Macintyre’s spy thriller

Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen and Kelly Macdonald provide some ballast in John Madden’s overburdened adaptation

The Guardian - UK

When is the Operation Mincemeat release date and will it be available on Netflix?

Based on an extraordinary true story, Operation Mincemeat is about a British intelligence plot to trick Hitler using the corpse of a homeless man

Manchester Evening News

Operation Mincemeat review – Colin Firth heads starry cast in wartime spy caper

Stiff upper lips abound in this stranger-than-fiction tale of second world war espionage, with Firth and Matthew Macfadyen in charge

The Guardian - UK

Operation Mincemeat: the startling story of deception that fooled Hitler and helped win the war

A new film and play about a startling allied deception resonate at a time when conflict and propaganda haunt Europe again

The Guardian - UK

World War II homeless body deception plot dreamt up by Bond writer Ian Fleming

When the corpse of a homeless man, dressed as a Royal Marines major with a case loaded with secret papers, was planted in shallow water, it fooled German agents and changed the course of the war

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