Operation Heartbreak
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Author | : Duff Cooper |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2024-02-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1961341034 |
A perfectly told tale of defeat and glory—and a paean to gallantry in the face of the absurd—inspired by a real-life secret mission during World War II. Orphaned in the first months of World War One, when his father is killed in action, Willie Maryington dreams only of joining the same cavalry regiment and going to the front. The Armistice dashes seventeen-year-old Willie’s plans, but not his dreams of glory, and he makes the regiment the center of his adult existence. Yet, as the years go by, Willie falls increasingly out of step, not only with civilian life, but with the modern military, where horse charges are a thing of the past, and where a gulf yawns between those who saw action and those who did not. When hostilities break out again between Germany and England, Willie has become a relic. No one could guess that he will be chosen for a mission whose outcome might well decide the course of the Second World War. Inspired by a real-life triumph of British counterintelligence (codenamed “Operation Mincemeat”), and based on classified sources, Operation Heartbreak was suppressed by the British government until 1950. A work of “jewel-like brevity and intensity” (New York Herald Tribune), it is a study in nostalgia and bewildered idealism to place beside the novels of Joseph Roth and Ford Madox Ford.
Author | : Duff Cooper |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2011-11-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0752476327 |
The greatest deception of the Second World War – and possibly in the whole of military history – took place in April 1943 when a body was found floating in the sea off the Spanish coast. The documents found on him would eventually find their way to Hitler's desk and send German troops hurtling in the wrong direction. The dead man convinced the Axis powers that the Allies were about to attack Greece and not the real target, Sicily. The course of the war was changed. In this volume is a story within the original extraordinary story. Duff Cooper's only fictional work, Operation Heartbreak, was based upon the emotionally charged decision to use an anonymous corpse to weave the web of deceit. The British authorities tried to suppress the book because it would show the Spanish in a bad light, with Franco now in power. A change of heart followed and Ewen Montagu was encouraged to tell the whole story. Anyone who read Ben Macintyre's best-selling Operation Mincemeat will have to read this double volume to understand the full story.
Author | : Duff Cooper |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2016-08-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1787200892 |
First published in 1950, Operation Heartbreak tells the fictional story of Wilie Marygton, a career soldier who was too young for WWI and too old for WWII. Born into a military family, Willie’s one goal in life is to take part in a battle, so he is exhilarated when he receives his commission, and is scheduled to leave for the Western Front on November 9, 1918. However, news of the Armistice changes his orders, and he instead spends the next 20 years in various posts in India and Africa, where his main occupation seems to be big game hunting and polo. With the rise of fascism, he is ready to resign his commission to fight in Spain, but is persuaded otherwise and spends WWII training recruits, lamenting his military status. But in an ironic twist of fate, he does end up playing an important part in the war effort....
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Release | : 2022-04-21 |
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ISBN | : 9781435777088 |
* A year after the events of "The Retribution Game" * An enemy from the past is been plotting payback. Andy Jäger isn't the loving person he made everyone believe he was. Davina Saxe's world crumbles and her best friend, the person she needs the most is stuck in another country arranging his divorce leaving her completely alone against a powerful and resentful man. Once divorced, Owen plans to confess the strong feelings he holds for Davina, feelings he forced himself to hide for years. Will the people that worked together to break a heart ever be couple material?
Author | : Alfred Duff Cooper (1st viscount Norwich) |
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Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1950 |
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