Winston Churchill’s greatest gamble… an act of piracy 3,000 miles aw | Films | Entertainment
Henry Cavill, centre, stars in The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Operation Postmaster was, according to leading military historian Damien Lewis, perhaps the biggest gamble of Winston Churchill’s entire political career. Utterly deniable in the event of failure, it involved a small team of raiders navigating a Brixham Trawler 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean to a tiny Spanish island off the West coast of Africa.
There they engaged in what amounted to blatant…