Ben Macintyre talks about Operation Mincemeat

[MyVintageVictory]

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[Lacedaemonia]

Listening to the audiobook now. Quite like it, but this video would have put me off if I saw it first.

[01Sterlitz]

Sound is no good. Please re-do this video.

[PZK12]

Bad idea by the PR department at Bloomsbury to make this look like a WW2 footage. Stopped me watching it.

[piprobins]

i wonder if MacIntyre ever gets out enough ?

[floodofthecentury]

It sounds as if Ben Macintyre is entirely unaware this was a well-known story before he came across it. For example it was made into a movie in 1956 entitled THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS

[gunthaarz]

I knew about the outlines of this operation as a 16 year old (I'm 40 now) , granted there was a lot of world war two interest in Norway in the 70's and 80's but still. The body floating ashore with false documents was very well known world war two information among my friends, but yeah, it's gotta be retold to new generations..

[jrcadet4]

I was most of the way through Ben Macintyre's excellent book before I recalled that MY FATHER was in the first wave of American troops who went ashore on Sicily. Without Operation Mincemeat's success, it's quite possible that I wouldn't exist today. Thank you, Mr. Macintyre, for shedding light on such an extraordinary chapter in history.