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and he thinks Bond’s hand in marriage may be the solution to all her problems

Ian Fleming studied with the author at a school she ran in Austria with her ex-spy husband

Ben Macintyre's book was the source of the 2021 Warner Brothers film of the same name starring Colin Firth

Operation Mincemeat Paperback Book - By Ben Macintyre burl These strips were then laidIntroducing Operation Mincemeat, the Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller paperback book by historian Ben Macintyre. Thrilling and unputdownable, this is the true story of the greatest and most successful wartime deception ever attempted. It was a plan first conceived by Ian Fleming in the 1930s: use a dead body to float false plans into enemy territory. April, 1943: a sardine fisherman spots the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast