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Operation mincemeat was a successful british deception operation of the second world war to disguise the 1943 allied invasion of sicily. His columns range from current affairs to historical controversies. I followed this by rereading duff coopers novella operation heartbreak, published in 1950. Unveiling neverbeforereleased material, ben macintyre brings the reader right into the.
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