{"product_id":"dangerous-enterprise","title":"Dangerous Enterprise","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBetween 1942 and 1944 a very small, very secret, very successful clandestine unit of the Royal Navy, operated between Dartmouth in Devon, and the Brittany Coast in France. It was a crossing of about 100 miles, every yard of it dangerous. The unit was called the 15th Motor Gunboat Flotilla: crewed by 125 officers and men, it became the most highly decorated Royal Naval unit of the Second World War.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe 15th   MGBF was an extraordinary group of men thrown together in the most secret of   adventures. Very few were regular Royal Naval officers: instead the unit was   made up of mostly Royal Naval Volunteer Officers and ''duration only'' sailors.   Their home was a converted paddle steamer and luxury yacht, but their work   could not have been more serious. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir mission was to ferry agents   of SIS and SOE to pinpoint landing sites on the Brittany coast in Occupied   France. Once they had landed their agents, together with stores for the   Resistance, they picked up evaders, escaped POWs who had had the good fortune   to be collected by escape lines run by M19, as well as returning SIS and SOE   agents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is a story that is   inextricably entwined with that of the many agents they were responsible for   - Pierre Hentic, Yves Le Tac, Virginia Hall, Albert Hué, Jeannie Rousseau,   Suzanne Warengham, François Mitterrand and Mathilde Carré, as well as many   others. Without the Flotilla, such intelligence gathering networks as Jade Fitzroy   and Alliance would never have developed, and SOE''s VAR Line and MI9''s   Shelburne Escape Line would never have been realised. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on a huge amount of   research on both sides of the Channel, including private archives of many of   the families involved, A Dangerous Enterprise brings the story of this   most clandestine of operations brilliantly to life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57314235908478,"sku":"NW9781999589134","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781999589134.jpg?v=1778593356","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/dangerous-enterprise","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}