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

4.0

4.5 stars really. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, being a fan both of the genre and of Macintyre’s writing style (“unambitious condom distribution” continues to make me chuckle). i knocked of half a star in the end because it really did start to drag. He went off on tangents telling the detailed backstory of several minor players. At one point we were in Bolivia on a gold mining expedition, potentially interesting in its own right but not what I came for, you know?