Churchill's Killing House: The Origins of World War II's Legendary Commando Fighting Force

At the end of 1940, Britain was under siege. Poland, Belgium, Holland, Norway and France had already fallen to Nazi rule, and the British army had been destroyed at Dunkirk.

In the rubble of the Allies’ crumbled defense, Churchill’s Invairlort House was established as a new symbol of defiance – and then hope – against Nazi rule. As the war rumbled on, this austere building became an academy for the brightest and best of all Allied volunteers, where they were transformed from ordinary foot-s...