The Man Who Never Was

by Ronald Neame, Ewan Montagu, Ricky Smith, Nigel Balchin

$275 · Offered by Royal Books · No longer available

N.p. Sumar Productions, 1956. Vintage studio photograph of Gloria Grahame on location, from the 1956 film. Mimeo snipe and French Twentieth Century Fox Stamp on verso. Based on Ewen Montagu's 1954 book, based on a true story about a British attempt to trick their German enemies, using the name and credentials of a dead man as bait. The real intelligence plan was called Operation Mincemeat, and was devised to deceive the Axis powers into thinking

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