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Originally published in 1953, The Unknown Courier tells the story of 'Operation Mincemeat', a British Intelligence secret plan to mislead the German High Command by planting papers on a corpse washed up on the coast of Spain. Ian Colvin became fascinated by the stories circulating of this audacious plan and acting on a journalistic hunch he started to investigate the story further. Colvin's search led him to Madrid, Gibraltar, Seville and finally to a grave at Huelva, where he was to discover the final resting place of the eponymous unknown courier.

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Ian Colvin was a journalist and author. As a journalist he began his career on the News Chronicle in Berlin, from where he was expelled by the Nazis in 1939. During the 1950's and 60's Colvin worked as a foreign correspondent in Africa and the Middle East for the Daily Telegraph. At the time of his death in 1975, he was The Telegraph's chief leader writer and roving foreign correspondent. His other books include Chief of Intelligence, Vansittart in Office and The Chamberlain Cabinet.

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