#1 Sunday Times[London] Bestseller Praise for the UK edition: "A terrific bookhellip;.Students of the second world war have been familiar with Mincemeat for many years, but Macintyre offers a mass of new detail, and enchanting pen portraits of the British, Spanish and German participants. His book is a rollicking read for all those who enjoy a spy story so fanciful that Ian Fleming-himself an officer in Montagu's wartime department-would never have dared to invent it." -Max Hastings, The Sunday Times[London] "A chillingly good bookhellip;.Macintyre has taken a well-known story of wartime deception, embellished it, and shown that it was even more ingenious and even more risky than we had all supposed." -The Spectator "Fascinating ... The complexities and consequences of the story that Macintyre tells in OPERATION MINCEMEAT are compelling ndash; a tribute to his impressive abilities as a sleuth (ones that we've witnessed in his previous books) and to his capacities as a writer. He has the instincts of a novelist rather than a historian when it comes to elision , exposition, narrative and pace, and is depiction of character is vividly alive to nuance and idiosyncrasy. Like the best novelists, he understands that all people are fundamentally individual ndash; odd and unique to themselves ndash; and that stereotypes exist only in bad fiction, whether on the page or on screen." -William Boyd,The Times[London] "Ben Macintyre turns up trumps in this rollicking tale of a second world war mission to dupe the Germans by using a corpse bearing fictional military plans ... The cast of characters is irresistible, and Macintyre's enthusiasm for them richly merited ... a terrific book with exceptional photographs of everybody, including the corpse. Students of the second world war have been familiar with Mincemeat for many years, but Macintyre offers a mass of new detail, and enchanting pen portraits of the British, Spanish and German participants. His book