When Ian Fleming wrote Moonraker" he was not working solely from his imagination. In 1945 he had been involved in the formation of T Force a secret unit of British soldiers who were thrown into a deadly race to uncover Nazi Secrets before they fell in to the hands of Stalins advancing troops. The force included infantrymen many of them only just recovered from the ordeal of D-Day engineers bomb disposal experts commandos & teams of expert scientists. In a breakneck pursuit
- often entering locations before other allied troops
- they uncovered underground factories & nuclear testing sites as well as defying the ceasefire & carrying out the final advance of the war to capture the Nazi submarine research facilities at Kiel overpowering 12 000 fully-armed Germans with only 500 men & a handful of jeeps. In the aftermath of war T-Force were also involved in the treacherous transportation of scientists out of the Soviet zone. With exclusive access to previously unseen documents & extensive interviews with the key figures Sean Longden reveals the story of T Force for the first time
- & uncovers Ian Flemings last Second World War Secret."