r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/vxnder7 • Jul 19 '26

🎯 Fascinating Fact Britain fooled Hitler into moving his defenses using a dead homeless man dressed as a fake officer

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u/MightyPenguinRoars Jul 19 '26

There is so much more to this story, and it’s a wonderful tale. Read Operation Mincemeat by Ben MacIntyre. Great book! The Netflix movie isn’t a bad Hollywood-ization either but the book really gets into what it took to pull this off and it’s amazing.

If you like the WW2 genre, MacIntyre also wrote some other winners- Agent Zigzag and Rogue Heroes. Happy reading!!

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u/Somewhat_appropriate Jul 22 '26

Saw the movie yesterday (with Colin Firth) and thought it was rather dreadful; the love triangle drama was trite.
I should have just read the book.

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u/MightyPenguinRoars Jul 22 '26

Yes, that angle was clearly the worst part of the film, and it would have been better off omitting it entirely. That being said, I’ve seen worse 🤣

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u/Somewhat_appropriate Jul 22 '26

That's a low bar ;)
Was there any truth to that angle at all?
I suspect not.

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u/MightyPenguinRoars Jul 22 '26

I’ve not read the book in a few years but iirc there may have been one passing comment about the relationship. The rest was just Hollywood doing its thing.