A review by eilonwy30
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Ben Macintyre

2.0

It's a wild story buried in way too much (impressive but cumbersome) research / detail. I felt like I was 14 again reading Moby Dick, and asking my parents when I'd finally meet the whale! (Confession -- I then proceeded to skip 100p of MD because I couldn't take any more of that type of detail. Didn't do that here, but perhaps should have.)

Honestly, I felt like the Malcolm Gladwell book review (from the New Yorker a few years ago) was a much better read.