Derek Law's Bibliography

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Entry Text: MONTAGU, Ewen. The Man Who Never Was. 144p., illus. London: Evans, 1953; Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1954.

An account by one of its organisers of Operation Mincemeat, in which an attempt was made to fool German Intelligence about the forthcoming landings in Sicily by allowing them to find a dead body with false documents. The body was washed ashore in Spain, having been "planted" at sea by Seraph.