Chalfont Literary Festival

Operation Mincemeat

Ben Macintyre is a columnist and Associate Editor on The Times. He has worked as the newspaper’s correspondent in New York, Paris and Washington. He is the author of Agent Zigzag, which was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Tesco Biography of the Year at the 2008 Galaxy British Book Awards.
Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II, published by Bloomsbury in January 2010, and in paperback in September 2010, is the thrilling true story of the greatest and most successful wartime deception ever attempted.