D-day’s ghost army

On a muggy night in late August 1940, Hinnerk Waller’s fraying tether had finally snapped. Relentlessly deployed in the Battle of Britain as part of the Luftwaffe fighter wing JG 52, Waller was paying

In the event of a Nazi invasion, Britain would have deployed a network of deadly defences to impede the enemy at every turn

HOW THE LUFTWAFFE PREPARED FOR THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN

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In the fourth instalment of his SAS Great Escapes series, Damien Lewis recounts, among others, an overlooked LRDG operation in occupied Yugoslavia