identity as a royal marines officer carrying fake military plans, and hoping nazi spies would find it. so, we re going to play a humiliating trick on hitler. the film is based on a book by the historian and author ben macintyre. it was cooked up by a group of extremely eccentric individuals. not professional spies. these were not james bond types. these were amateurs, really, who d been brought together by the war. churchill referred to them as corkscrew thinkers, who just dreamed up this outlandish plan to try to bamboozle the germans. and in that, they succeeded. newsreel: at many points, - troops waded in, surprised to find much less resistance than expected. the allied invasion of sicily went ahead. the germans had been deceived by the fake documents, and moved troops to greece. so, whose body was it? in the 1990s, official archives were published stating it was a welshman, glyndwr michael. he had fallen on hard times and died