Operation Mincemeat

 

The stranger-than-fiction story of the bizarre and critical military deception that arguably helped the Allies liberate wartime Sicily. It’s 1943. The Allies are determined to break Hitler’s grip on Europe and launch an all-out assault on occupied Sicily. 

 

Knowing they must misdirect the Nazis from their true intentions, two brilliant naval intelligence offers, Ewen Montagu and Charles Cholmondeley, conceive of a truly inspired, if potentially farcical plan to lead their foe astray.