Operation Mincemeat How Lies Helped Win the War 4

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Sep 9, 202600:36:58Society & Culture

Historian of deception and espionage Dr Helen Fry has spent years uncovering the extraordinary world of Britain’s wartime spies, codebreakers and secret intelligence networks. She joins Alice and Matt to reveal what it r...

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