THE BEN MACINTYRE COLLECTION £5 AT WHSmith FOR JUST

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A THRILLING two-book bind up by Ben Macintyre. Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and certainly the strangest. Agent Zigzag tells the exhilarating account of Britain’s most sensational notorious double agent.

Operation Mincemeat One overcast April morning in 1943, a fisherman notices a corpse floating in the sea off the coast of Spain. When the body is brought ashore, he is identified as a British soldier, Major William Martin of the Royal Marines. A leather attaché case, secured to his belt, reveals an intelligence goldmine: top-secret documents Allied invasion plans.

But Major William Martin never existed. The body is that of a dead Welsh tramp and every single document is fake. Operation Mincemeat is the incredible true story of the most extraordinary deception ever planned by Churchill’s spies – an outrageous lie that travelled from a Whitehall basement all the way to Hitler’s desk.

Agent Zigzag One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war

effort. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5’s Agent Zigzag. Dashing and louche, courageous and unpredictable, inside the traitor was a hero, inside the villain, a man of conscience. The problem for Chapman, his many lovers and his spymasters, was knowing where one ended and the other began. Ben Macintyre weaves together diaries, letters, photographs, memories and top secret MI5 files to create the exhilarating account of Britain’s most sensational double agent.

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