Perhaps, then, it is the vaunted Old Blighty reserve and good taste that fumbles “Operation Mincemeat,” the World War II story of how the corpse of a tramp, Glyndwr Michael, fooled the Nazis ...

Operation Mincemeat was not about baking tasty little seasonal pies, but rather the name given to an elaborate 1943 ruse concocted by the British intelligence services to clear out thousands of ...