THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS (160 pp.) —Ewen Montagu—Lippincott ($2.75). The career of Major William Martin of Britain’s Royal Marines was as spectacular as it was brief. Although he was unknown when he ...

A remarkable real-life WWII deception becomes an uneven spy thriller that sacrifices suspense for unnecessary romantic drama.

Ewen Montagu, 84, who led the British counterespionage unit responsible for the “man who never was” hoax to deceive the Nazis over Allied landings in the Mediterranean during World War II, died Friday ...

Operation Mincemeat, launched in 1943, was one of the most successful wartime deceptions ever attempted. Masterminded by Charles Cholmondeley and Ewen Montagu, the plan involved the dead body of a ...

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"Operation Mincemeat" is a movie about the British intelligence operation that convinced Germany that the Allies planned to invade Greece instead of Sicily. "Operation Mincemeat," now streaming on ...

Colin Firth as Ewen Montagu and Matthew Macfadyen as Charles Cholmondeley, in OPERATION MINCEMEAT. Photo Credit: Giles Keyte/See-Saw Films, Courtesy of Netflix “Truth is stranger than fiction” stories ...