At precisely one o’clock on the morning of Saturday, November 6, 1943, Heinrich Himmler received a terse signal at his Prinz Albrechtstrasse HQ THE EAGLE HAS LANDED. It meant that a small force of specially trained German paratroopers had been safely dropped in England and were poised to snatch the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, from the Norfolk country house near the sea where he was due to spend the weekend.
