Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Dan Snow's History Hit
Episode: Operation Mincemeat: The Deception that Changed WWII
Description: It’s 1943. The Allies are determined to break Hitler’s grip on occupied Europe and plan an all-out assault on Sicily, but they face an impossible challenge - how to protect a massive invasion force from a potential massacre. It falls to two remarkable intelligence officers, Ewen Montagu and Charles Cholmondeley to dream the most inspired and improbable disinformation strategy of the war - centred on the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man.In today's episode, Matt Lewis sits in for Dan to discover the behind the scenes history of the new movie Operation Minc...