The Jedburghs: The Secret History of the Allied Special Forces, France 1944

The story of the Special Forces in World War II has never fully been told before. Information about them began to be declassified only in the 1980s.


Known as the Jedburghs, these Special Forces were selected from members of the British, American, and Free French armies to be dropped in teams of three deep behind German lines. There, in preparation for D-Day, they carried out what we now know as unconventional warfare: supporting the French Resistance in guerrilla attacks, supply-route disrup...