TY - BOOK AU - MONTAGU Ewen TI - The man who never was SN - 1557504482 (pbk) : PY - 2001/// CY - Annapolis MD USA PB - Naval Institute Press KW - OPERATION MINCEMEAT KW - SECOND WORLD WAR KW - DECEPTION OPERATIONS KW - SECRET SERVICE KW - GREAT BRITAIN N1 - Originally published Oxford: Oxford Universtiy Press, 1953 N2 - Describes the meticulously planned and very successful deception operation which British counterintelligence mounted in 1943 to convince the German High Command that an Allied attack would be focused on Greece and the eastern Mediterranean rather than the actual target Sicily. The author was the Lt Commander RN who originated the idea and implemented the plan ER -