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midM1 (Free download) The Jail Busters: The Secret Story of MI6, the French Resistance and Operation Jericho Online [midM1.ebook] The Jail Busters: The Secret Story of MI6, the French Resistance and Operation Jericho Pdf Free Robert Lyman ePub | *DOC | audiobook | ebooks | Download PDF Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook #7164704 in Books 2014-07-01 2014-07-01Original language:English 8.00 x 1.00 x 5.00l, .84 #File Name: 1782065377352 pages | File size: 30.Mb Robert Lyman : The Jail Busters: The Secret Story of MI6, the French Resistance and Operation Jericho before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised The Jail Busters: The Secret Story of MI6, the French Resistance and Operation Jericho: 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Fortunately Dr Lyman has provided a comprehensive abbreviations and glossary ...By AiraceAt last, a respected military historian has started with a clean sheet of paper and looked at the intrigue and mystery surrounding Operation Jericho or the RAF Mosquito attack on the Amiens Prison in February 1944. In the years that followed the raid, various conspiracy theories have emerged as to its true purpose and who asked for it. Because the raid was clouded by wartime secrecy and little information remains today in the British archives, many alternative theories have emerged which over the years have gained prominence and even respect. Dr Robert Lyman has exhaustively researched French and British Archives as well as personal memoirs of former French patriots and RAF pilots. He concluded that the information or facts regarding the raid has always been in the public domain, you just need to know where to look. For example, a 1982 BBC Panorama documentary cast doubts on the raids purpose but through contacts in New Zealand, a remarkable TVNZ documentary produced coincidentally in the same year was found, which actually interviewed former French patriots from both inside and outside the Amiens prison at the time. Memoirs written by Dominique Ponchardier, the joint head of the resistance ops in Northern France confirmed it was he who requested the raid to British Intelligence, M16 who in turn passed the request onto the Air Ministry. Dr Lyman has gone into enormous detail describing the story of the French resistance from when the Germans invaded France right up to the Allied Liberation in 1944. The relationship between the French resistance groups and British Intelligence or M16 details the vital importance of their partnership in the months leading up to D Day. Fortunately Dr Lyman has provided a comprehensive abbreviations and glossary section to keep track of the various personalities and factions involved. The raid itself has been thoroughly covered and the skill and bravery of the pilots and navigators who took part has been given the recognition they truly deserve. In his epilogue or summary, Dr Lyman concluded that the raids sole purpose was to release French patriots who once captured by the Germans, would die, not necessarily within the next few days as was widely believed, but they would die sometime, somewhere. And the request for an air attack on the prison was made from within the prison and via the resistance movement in the area. The operation was carried out in great secrecy but there was no conspiracy. The Jail Busters is another masterpiece from Dr Lyman and is without a doubt the most comprehensive and thoroughly researched study of this epic event. For military history buffs, this is a very important work and an absolute must read. In the new year of 1944 the French Resistance in northern France was on its knees. Relentless attacks on its diverse and disorganised networks by the Gestapo and the Abwehr had put many of its best operatives in prison, or worse. But in the lead up to Operation Overlord, 'D Day', the Resistance had never been more important to the Allied war effort, and many groups were in the pay of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, MI6. One such was organised by a patriot called Dominic Ponchardier. For months he had watched helplessly as his friends and colleagues had been swept up by the Nazi drag net, and cast into the old prison on the eastern outskirts of Amiens. In desperation he asked his MI6 handlers for help, and once London agreed it led to one of the most daring missions of the war. On the morning of 18 February 1944, nineteen Mosquito bombers flew at low level across the channel, skimming just above the ground to drop their bombs on sections of the walls of Amiens Prison. Hundreds escaped, scores of whom evaded recapture to continue the fight against Nazi repression. It was an epic of precision bombing, in which one of the most notable RAF heroes of the war, Group Captain Charles Pickard, lost his life. Robert Lyman's book reveals, from previously unseen sources, the full truth of MI6's involvement in the French Resistance, and narrates in vivid detail a stirring tale of courage and skill. About the AuthorRobert Lyman is a respected military history specialist and his previous books include The Longest Siege: Tobruk; Slim, Master of War; Operation Suicide and Into the Jaws of Death. He lives in Berkshire, England. 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