Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Operation Mincemeat

‘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

From Six to Operation Mincemeat – how cool indie musicals are sweeping the West End

Bold new musicals with their roots in fringe theatre are popping up across the West End. Stars, writers and producers on why this is a ‘moment’ to celebrate

Evening Standard

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

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

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

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

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

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.

Tribune News Service

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

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

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

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

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

Daily Mirror

'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

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 Independent UK

Operation Mincemeat review: A glittering Second World War musical that is funnier than Hamilton

SpitLip’s comedy musical about a little-known wartime plot is as daring as it is comic

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Evening Standard

Operation Mincemeat review: a larky fringe hit with surprising depths

It’s a bonkers idea to make a musical out of this wildcard WWII manoeuvre, but it just about works

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.