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Operation Mincemeat: WW2 espionage on film

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The History of Mincemeat

There are so many layers to mincemeat, and there are so many moments when it goes back and forth. To write as a book you couldn't put that on the screen because, i mean, nobody would be able to follow it in under two hours. The intelligence services did not want this story to be told for obvious reasons. Duff cooper got wind of the story because he heard winston churchill telling it after dinner all the time. And so he then wrote a novel called operation heartbreak, which was thinly veiled version of the story,. very romanticised. As a result of that, you and montague said, ifhe can do the novel, i'm going to do

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