Ian Fleming's Commandos reconstructs the origin and missions of 30 Assault Unit, a British wartime intelligence strike team formed in 1941 to capture enemy documents, cipher equipment and technical know‑how.

The account traces operations from North Africa and the Mediterranean to the invasions of Sicily and Italy, through D-Day and into the heart of Germany. It highlights targeted raids on radar and rocket facilities and the seizure of vast archival stores.

Based on archival research and eyewitness testimony, the narrative connects these high-risk missions to the broader Allied intelligence effort and to the imaginative influence that later inspired spy fiction.

• Campaigns: North Africa, Sicily, Italy, D-Day, liberation of Paris
• Focus: intelligence raids, code and machine seizures, naval archives
• Format: paperback, 416 pages

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