Captain Bob Walker-Brown had parachuted into this remote part of northern Italy with 33 members of the SAS under his command. Their mission was to wreak utter havoc and mayhem.
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An historian who discovered the top secret operation in Italy dubbed it the most audacious mission he had ever read about and too far-fetched for a Hollywood movie plot .