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Raid 57: Operation Jericho: Freeing the French Resistance from Gestapo Jail...

Description: This is the story of Operation Jericho, the spectacular prison break staged by an elite group of British, Australian and New Zealand bomber pilots, who flew a daring low-level mission to blow holes in the walls of Amiens jail and free French Resistance prisoners under the sentence of death during World War II. With D-Day looming, early 1944 was a time of massive intelligence activity across northern France, and many résistants were being captured and imprisoned by the Germans. Among the jails full of French agents was Amiens, where hundreds awaited likely execution for their activities. To repay their debt of honor, MI6 requested an air raid with a seemingly impossible brief: to simultaneously blow holes in the prison walls, free as many men and women as possible while minimizing casualties and kill German guards in their quarters. The crews would have to fly their bomb-run at an altitude of just 20ft. Despite the huge difficulties, the RAF decided that the low-level specialists of No. 140 Wing had a chance of success. With the aid of first-hand accounts, explanatory 3D diagrams and dramatic original artwork, the eminent historian Robert Lyman explains how one of the most difficult and spectacular air raids of World War II was pulled off and debunks some of the myths over why the raid was ordered in the first place. Operation JerichoFreeing the French Resistance from Gestapo jail, Amiens 1944Robert Lyman (Author), Adam Tooby (Illustrator) Published26 May 2022FormatPaperbackEdition1stExtent80ISBN9781472852069ImprintOsprey PublishingDimensions248 x 184 mmSeriesRaidShort codeRAID 57PublisherBloomsbury Publishing

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Location: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

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Book Title: Operation Jericho: Freeing the French Resistance from Gestapo

Book Series: Raid

Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Item Length: 9.8in

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Original Language: English

Publication Year: 2022

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Item Height: 0.2in

Author: Robert Lyman

Features: Illustrated

Genre: History, Military, War & Combat

Topic: Aircraft, Airplanes, Military History, War, Warfare, World History, World War II, Military / World War II, WORLD, History

Item Width: 7.3in

Item Weight: 9.2 Oz

Number of Pages: 80 Pages

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