The Unknown Courier: The True Story of Operation Mincemeat

by Ian Colvin

Overview

Published in 1953, The Unknown Courier tells the story of ‘Operation Mincemeat’, a British Intelligence plan to mislead the German High Command by planting papers on a corpse washed up on the coast of Spain. Colvin's account looks beyond the military machinations to explore the identity of this 'unknown courier', the dead man who changed the course of the war.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785901379
Publisher:	Biteback Publishing, Ltd.
Publication date:	10/10/2017
Series:	Dialogue Espionage Classics
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Ian Colvin: Ian Colvin was a journalist and author. As a journalist he began his career on the News Chronicle in Berlin, from where he was expelled by the Nazis in 1939. During the 1950s and 1960s Colvin worked as a foreign correspondent in Africa and the Middle East for the Daily Telegraph. At the time of his death in 1975, he was the Telegraph's chief leader writer and roving foreign correspondent.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements xiii
Foreword xv
A Note on the Situation Confronting the Axis in the Mediterranean in the Spring of 1943, by Field-Marshal Kesselring xix
List of Illustrations xxv

1 How the Quest Began 1
2 The Traces in Madrid 11
3 The Rock of Gibraltar 23
4 The Seville Dancers 39
5 The Grave in Huelva 51
6 The Quest in London 63
7 A Short History of Plant Life 75
8 Meeting the Hush Men 91
9 Seeing the Evidence 103
10 Major Martin’s Last Voyage 137
11 Hitler Hears about Major Martin 155
12 Conclusions 169
13 Post Mortem 177

Appendix 181
Bibliography 199
Index 201