Highest Placed Spy August 2, 2012
Posted by Beachcombing in : Contemporary
And so it begins… Mrs B woke up at 5.00 am this morning and took darling daughters and aupair to the sea for at least a week. Beach is going to relax today and then from tomorrow do some serious MANLY writing. (He will only really relax when he learns that Italian motorways have not [...]
Swallowing or Choking on (Operation) Mincemeat February 23, 2012
Posted by Beachcombing in : Contemporary
***Dedicated to Glyndwr Michael*** Operation Mincemeat is often celebrated as the single greatest act of trickery of the Second World War. In 1943 a Welsh suicide victim was dressed up in the uniform of a British royal marine, put on dry ice in a submarine, thrown into the sea off the coast of Spain with [...]
