Cooper Duff

1950 · ref. 47276 — Hart-Davis 1950. 8vo. First Edition; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco sides with gilt frame border gilt back gilt edges hand-made endpapers ribbon marker in custom-made-slip-case an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The novel that exposed Operation MINCEMEAT arguably the most famous strategic deception of WWII and a closely guarded secret until the appearance of this tale. A sharp-eyed journalist Ian Colvin was intrigued by Cooper's unlikely plot and linked it to a footnote in a book by General Westphal formerly Kesselring's Chief of Staff. The result of his researches was The Unknown Courier 1953 a piece of investigative journalism so close to the truth that the authorities had little choice but to allow Ewan Montagu MINCEMEAT'S conceiver and organiser to relate the story almost in full in 'The Man Who Never Was' 1953. Hart-Davis, unknown