It was the end of 1941, and any major British assault against the Axis powers was still “beyond the compass of our stride,” Winston Churchill surmised. But smaller, clandestine operations were well ...
A storied episode of airborne combat serves as a study in courage and chaos in this gripping account. Historian Hastings (The Abyss) revisits Operation Biting, a British paratrooper raid on Bruneval, ...