OPERATION MINCEMEAT: THE TRUE SPY STORY THAT CHANGED THE COURSE OF WORLD WAR II

Book ID/图书代码： 04300010B34436

English Summary/英文概要： One April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and set in train a course of events that would change the course of the Second World War. Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and certainly the strangest. It hoodwinked the Nazi espionage chiefs, sent German troops hurtling in the wrong direction, and saved thousands of lives by deploying a secret agent who was different, in one crucial respect, from any spy before or since: he was dead. His mission: to convince the Germans that instead of attacking Sicily, the Allied armies planned to invade Greece. The brainchild of an eccentric RAF officer and a brilliant Jewish barrister, the great hoax involved an extraordinary cast of characters including a famous forensic pathologist, a gold-prospector, an inventor, a beautiful secret service secretary, a submarine captain, three novelists, a transvestite English spymaster, an irascible admiral who loved fly-fishing, and a dead Welsh tramp. Using fraud, imagination and seduction, Churchill’s team of spies spun a web of deceit so elaborate and so convincing that they began to believe it themselves. The deception started in a windowless basement beneath Whitehall. It travelled from London to Scotland to Spain to Germany. And it ended up on Hitler’s desk. Ben Macintyre, bestselling author of "Agent Zigzag", weaves together private documents, photographs, memories, letters and diaries, as well as newly released material from the intelligence files of MI5 and Naval Intelligence, to tell for the first time the full story of Operation Mincemeat.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1943年4月的早晨，一个沙丁鱼渔夫目击一位英国士兵的尸体漂浮在远离西班牙海岸的海里，并由涨潮带到了岸边，由此一系列事件很有可能改变二战的方向。《军事行动》是战时最成功的欺骗手段，当然也最奇怪。它蒙混了纳粹间谍头，误送德国武器，凭借秘密的特工部署救下了成千上万条的性命。这位特工与众不同，备受推崇，史无前例，为国捐躯。他的使命是说服德国人改入侵希腊而非西西里岛。古里古怪的RAF官员、聪明的犹太律师、牵涉到一票人的法庭病理学者、金预测者、发明家、一位美丽的秘密服务秘书、潜水艇船长、3个小说家、有异性装扮癖的英国间谍、喜欢钓鱼的暴躁的海军上将、死掉的流浪汉，运用诡计、想象和引诱，丘吉尔的间谍们编织了一张网，甚至说服他们自己信服。这场骗局始于白厅下的无窗基地。从伦敦到苏格兰，再从西班牙到德国，直至希特勒的办公桌。本•马辛泰尔是畅销书《Z特工》的作者，将私人文件、照片、记录、信件、日记以及新发表的文档结合，首次以全新的面貌结集成《军事行动》示人。(XJJ)

Awards/获奖情况：因《Z特工》受表扬：约翰•卡里“了不起。精心调研，语言华丽，引人入胜，感人肺腑。” 威廉姆•宝叶“有趣的自传，这个故事很惊人，特工很强大...难以置信” 《星期天邮报》“这本书太神奇了，充满了奇遇和真实的冒险，无法不推崇备至”《时代周刊》“今年不可能会有另一部比这部涉及更多间谍学和欺骗的书出版了。”

Praise for Agent Zigzag:
’Superb. Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensely entertaining and often very moving’---John le Carre

’A fascinating biography of this most astonishing and insouciant of double agents ... incredible’---William Boyd

’This is the most amazing book, full of fascinating and hair-raising true life adventures ... it would be impossible to recommend it too highly’---Mail on Sunday

’It is unlikely that a more engaging study of espionage and deception will be published this year’---The Times

OPERATION MINCEMEAT will be Number 1 on the Sunday Times hardback non-fiction bestseller list this Sunday.

Publishers of Operation Mincemeat: UK (Bloomsbury), US (Crown), Brazil (Editorial Record), China (Gold Wall Press), France (Ixelles Publishing), Greece (Editions Klidarithmos Ltd), Israel (Am Oved), Hungary (Pecsi Direkt), Italy (Mondadori), Japan (Chuokoron-Shinsha), Netherlands (Veen Magazines), Poland (Znak), Russia (United Press), Spain (Editora Critica), Sweden (Ekerlids Forlag).

“Brilliant and almost absurdly entertaining”---Malcolm Gladwell, New Yorker

"Macintyre has a journalist’s nose for a great story, and a novelist’s skill in its narration. If anything, Operation Mincemeat is even more spellbinding than his previous story of wartime espionage, Agent Zigzag, with a cast-list every bit as dotty and colourful ... Macintyre is a master of the thumbnail character sketch." ---Craig Brown, ‘Book of the Week’, The Mail on Sunday

About the Author/作者介绍： 本•马辛泰尔是《时代周刊》的专栏作家也是副编辑。他作为报纸通讯员在纽约、巴黎和华盛顿等地工作过。他之前写过7本书，包括《Z特工》，故事写的是战争时期一个叫艾迪的双重间谍，这本书获得了08年的库斯塔自传将和英国书籍奖提名。他现和老婆及3个孩子住在伦敦。

Ben Macintyre is a columnist and Associate Editor on The Times. He has worked as the newspaper’s correspondent in New York, Paris and Washington. He is the author of seven previous books including Agent Zigzag, the story of wartime double-agent Eddie Chapman, which was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Galaxy British Book Award for Biography of the Year 2008. He lives in London with his wife and three children.

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