This is the fantastic but true story of Operation Mincemeat, a brilliant coup by British Intelligence which completely deceived the German High Command and ensured the success of Allied landings in Sicily in 1943.

A severe case of World War Two takes James Herriot away from his vet's life in the Dales and into a training camp somewhere in England.... Square-bashing in his uniform of RAF blue, he daydreams of the livestock he left behind him.