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- Macintyre, Ben (May 2010). Operation Mincemeat. Crown Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-45329-7.
- Macintyre, Ben (September 2010). Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II . London, UK: A&C Black. ISBN 978-1-4088-0921-1.
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