Suicidal Valour

Wired for destruction, a bridge in Germany defied capture until King George VI’s former bodyguard pulled off a wartime ‘mission impossible’ in an act of near-suicidal daring.

SECOND WORLD WAR

The war was rushing towards its scrappy conclusion as Ian Oswald Liddell scribbled a hurried letter home to his parents. It was cryptically tantalising in its suggestion of a leading role during the British Liberation Army’s charge into Germany. Dated...

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