Introduction: The Target for Today
Origins: The Aircraft - No.2 (Lighter Bomber) Group
The Plan: The Reason Why - Group Captain Percy Charles Pickard
The Raid: Take-off - The Attack - Aftermath in Amiens - The Deaths
of Pickard and Broadley
Aftermath
Bibliography
Index
The spectacular story of the prison break staged by an elite group of Allied pilots, who flew a daring low-level mission to blow holes in the walls of Amiens jail and free French Resistance prisoners.
Dr Robert Lyman FRHistS is regarded as one of Britain’s
most talented military historians, with over 20 bestselling works
published to date and numerous television appearances including on
the BBC’s ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ He spent 20 years in the
British Army. His previous book on Operation Jericho, The Jail
Busters, was on the Chief of the Air Staff's reading list in
2016.
Adam Tooby is an internationally renowned digital artist and
illustrator. His work can be found in publications worldwide and as
box art for model aircraft kits. He also runs a successful
illustration studio and aviation prints business.
...it includes some marvellous 3D diagrams clearly showing the
flightpaths of the various aircraft over the prison site.
*Military Model Scene*
The book is organised into four chapters with an introduction, the
origins, the plan, and the raid along with an aftermath section, a
bibliography, and a short index. The book is well illustrated
throughout with a great selection of photographs along with superb
artwork. There are three double page artworks that really leap off
the pages. The diagrams showing the various attack axis is also
noteworthy. And the abundance of first person accounts from the
aircrew and prisoners alike is commendable. I did however find one
editing error on the last page where a footnote says “VHS” instead
of “VHF” for a frequency reference. This in no way detracts from
the book and is a simple mistake to make. This is one of best and
most affordable books out there on this somewhat controversial
raid. RAMROD 564 as it was known then is one of the most famous low
level bombing raids of World War Two and also one of the most
controversial due to the mystery behind why it was actually
ordered. I highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in
Mosquito operations, the French Resistance, or as a collector of
the RAID Osprey series.
*Aviation News Magazine*
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