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Operation Heartbreak: An alternate history of Ian Fleming’s body on the beach

Operation Mincemeat is one of the better known operations of the Second World War, thanks to the film of the same name which was turned into an improbable musical. It caught the imagination because it was so very macabre: the body of a British officer would be found washed up…

Evening Standard

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 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

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The incredible true story behind the body of a Welsh man that fooled Hitler

The Hollywood film Operation Mincemeat tells the story of the deception effort to keep plans for the Allied Invasion of Sicily in 1943 a secret

Wales Online

‘This is not the World War II I was taught about’: The story behind Operation Mincemeat the musical

The theatre company SpitLip talk to Isobel Lewis about turning ‘Operation Mincemeat’ into a musical comedy for the stage – ‘it’s a British tradition to make fun of the terrible things we do’

The Independent UK

'My father's dead body ruse sent Adolf Hitler on the road to defeat during WW2'

Jennifer Montagu, the daughter of intelligence officer Ewan Montagu, who was behind Operation Mincemeat, remembers how she was the first person he told when finally cleared to reveal details

Daily Mirror

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

Daily Mirror

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