In early 1943, the Allies are planning to invade Sicily - although with each side of the war closely scrutinising the other with a ramped up focus on espionage and stealing secrets the question arises as to how to do so without the enemy knowing.
A supremely audacious plan is concocted to throw Axis powers of the scent, a plan which has to be perfectly calibrated in order for the enemy to fall for it. And so, in nominally netural territory, Operation Mincemeat is put into action thanks to a future spy novelist, a couple of meticulous intelligence men, a submarine and a homeless man.
This is the story of the man who never was...
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The Assassination of JFK
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Lost Cosmonauts
Members' Lounge Open Day
Lester C Hunt & The Fall of McCarthyism
The Death of Joseph Stalin
The Story of Harry & Harriet Moore
Fat Man & Little Boy
A Very Self-Indulgent Birthday Party
Adolf Hitler: Death of a Farty Coward
The Nazi Gold Train
Pearl Harbor Double Bill
Kristallnacht
Who Stabbed Dimitri Navachine?
Federico & Franco
The Murder of Gareth Jones
Who Was Wallace Fard Muhammad?
The Night of the Long Knives (or, Did Hitler J*** While Soft?)
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