Cover art for The Unknown Courier
Published
Biteback Publishing, February 2017
ISBN
9781785901379
Format
Softcover, 224 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm

The Unknown Courier The True Story of Operation Mincemeat by

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Originally published in 1953, The Unknown Courier tells the story of 'Operation Mincemeat', a British Intelligence secret plan to mislead the German High Command by planting papers on a corpse washed up on the coast of Spain. Ian Colvin became fascinated by the stories circulating of this audacious plan and acting on a journalistic hunch he started to investigate the story further.

Colvin's search led him to Madrid, Gibraltar, Seville and finally to a grave at Huelva, where he was to discover the final resting place of the eponymous unknown courier.

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