Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine
In the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London: its
purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through spectacular
acts of sabotage.
The guerrilla campaign that followed was every bit as extraordinary as the six
men who directed it. One of them, Cecil Clarke, was a maverick engineer who had
spent the 1930s inventing futuristic caravans. Now, his talents were put to more
devious use: he built the dirty bomb used to assassinate Hitler's favorite,
Reinhard Heydrich. Another, William Fairbairn, was a portly pensioner with an
unusual passion: he was