The Tiny British Lapel Knife WWII Spies Used When There Was No Escape

Описание: Paris, May 1944. A cramped cell in Fresnes Prison. Canadian SOE agent Frank Pickersgill has been held here for nearly a year. Tortured. Interrogated. Starved. The Germans want radio codes, safe house locations, names of other resistance fighters. Information that could destroy entire networks across occupied France.
They've taken everything. His wireless set. His weapons. His false papers. Everything except his will to survive.
He spots it. A wine bottle left carelessly near the cell door. He shatters it against the wall. Uses the jagged glass to slash at a guard's throat. Jumps from a second-story window. Breaks his arm on impact. SS soldiers gun him down in the street before he makes it fifty meters.
He survives. Barely. But the escape attempt fails.
This is the brutal reality Britain's Special Operations Executive faced by 1941. Once an agent was captured, they had nothing. No tools. No weapons. No hope.
Unless they had been given something the Germans couldn't find. Something so small, so perfectly concealed that it could survive even the most methodical search.
This is the story of Britain's smallest weapon of the Second World War. A blade measuring barely two inches. A knife that weighed less than an ounce. A weapon designed not to win fights, but to create one explosive moment of chaos when every other option had failed.
By 1941, Britain was waging a shadow war across Nazi-occupied Europe. The Special Operations Executive, created in July 1940 under Winston Churchill's famous directive to "set Europe ablaze," had become one of the war's most audacious organizations.