Operation Mincemeat : (Record no. 117090)

MARC details
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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780747598688
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0747598681
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency StDuBDS
Language of cataloging eng
Transcribing agency StDuBDS
Modifying agency Uk
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Macintyre, Ben,
Dates associated with a name 1963-
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Macintyre, Ben,
Dates associated with a name 1963-
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Operation Mincemeat :
Remainder of title the true spy story that changed the course of World War II /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Ben Macintyre.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Bloomsbury,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2010.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xiii, 400 p., [16] p. of plates :
Other physical details ill., map ;
Dimensions 23 cm.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. One April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and set in train a course of events that would change the course of the Second World War. Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and certainly the strangest. It hoodwinked the Nazi espionage chiefs, sent German troops hurtling in the wrong direction, and saved thousands of lives by deploying a secret agent who was different, in one crucial respect, from any spy before or since: he was dead. His mission: to convince the Germans that instead of attacking Sicily, the Allied armies planned to invade Greece. The brainchild of an eccentric RAF officer and a brilliant Jewish barrister, the great hoax involved an extraordinary cast of characters including a famous forensic pathologist, a gold-prospector, an inventor, a beautiful secret service secretary, a submarine captain, three novelists, a transvestite English spymaster, an irascible admiral who loved fly-fishing, and a dead Welsh tramp.Using fraud, imagination and seduction, Churchill's team of spies spun a web of deceit so elaborate and so convincing that they began to believe it themselves. The deception started in a windowless basement beneath Whitehall. It travelled from London to Scotland to Spain to Germany. And it ended up on Hitler's desk. Ben Macintyre, bestselling author of "Agent Zigzag", weaves together private documents, photographs, memories, letters and diaries, as well as newly released material from the intelligence files of MI5 and Naval Intelligence, to tell for the first time the full story of Operation Mincemeat.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Operation Mincemeat.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element World War, 1939-1945
General subdivision Secret service
Geographic subdivision Great Britain.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Operation Husky, 1943.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Operation Mincemeat.
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998 ## - LOCAL CONTROL INFORMATION (RLIN)
Operator's initials, OID (RLIN) 0
Cataloger's initials, CIN (RLIN) 111216
First Date, FD (RLIN) m
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Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Cost, normal purchase price Total Checkouts Total Renewals Full call number Barcode Date last seen Cost, replacement price Price effective from Koha item type
Not Withdrawn Not Lost Dewey Decimal Classification Not Damaged Available for Loan ATU Mayo ATU Mayo General Shelves 16/12/2011 7.81     940.548641 MAC J164281 05/04/2017 7.81 05/04/2017 General