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Purchase options and add-ons. Three squadrons of Mosquitoes streak over snow-covered France at tree-top height. Their target? Desperate calls to London from the French Resistance told of men and women due to be shot at dawn, and of a British agent being tortured to reveal the secrets of the Allied invasion plan. Film-star RAF pilot group Captain Pickard led the raid that smashed the prison walls and killed the German guards while the Resistance stormed the prison to release their comrades.
For more than sixty years this version of events has been believed and many have gone to their graves in the certain knowledge that they had helped save the inmates from certain death and preserved the secret of the coming invasion, but this was not the truth. Report an issue with this product. Previous slide of product details. Print length. Publication date. See all details. Next slide of product details. This epic story has been repeated in dozens of books and articles over the years and sits proudly in the history of the Royal Air Force.
But there is one fundamental problem to the story. There were no prisoners awaiting execution, in fact the French Resistance had no idea why the RAF bombed this small provincial prison. The author discovered this fact whilst researching the wartime history of his local area.
Determined to find the real reason for the raid, his search took him up through the chain of command right into the shadowy world of MI6 and beyond. He found that many files had been destroyed or removed from the National Archives, deliberate lies had been fed to the press and an entire cover story had been created to fool not only the public, but the Mosquito crews themselves.
