Operation Jericho: Freeing the French Resistance from Gestapo Jail, Amiens 1944

by Robert Lyman

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472852060
• ISBN13: 9781472852069
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.4" x 9.8"