The Man Who Never Was.

MONTAGU, Ewen.

Item Number: 115612

Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1954.

Early printing of this classic true story by Montagu, who ran the counterespionage sub-branch of the naval intelligence division at the British Admiralty. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by the author, “Ewen Montagu 5 – Feb -1956.” Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Foreword by Lord Ismay. Uncommon signed.

The true story of "Operation Mincemeat", the famous World War II strategic ruse in which the British dressed an anonymous corpse in the uniform of a Major of the Royal Marines, loaded him with misleading "secret" messages, and dumped him off the coast of Spain to be discovered by the German forces.