British intelligence quietly planned one of the most daring assassination attempts of the war. Drawing on prisoner ...

"Operation Foxley" was a plot to assassinate Hitler in his own back garden, using a crack shot sniper and top-secret intel fed to Britain by a German prisoner... so why didn't we pull the trigger?

The Foxley Report - an assessment of a plan to assassinate Hitler towards the end of World War Two - gives a fascinating picture of covert British operations in the later war years. The intelligence ...

Throughout his time as head of the Nazi party, Adolph Hitler evaded numerous attempts to assassinate him. However the secret Operation Foxely came the closest to succeeding. Based on declassified ...

Towards the end of World War Two, the British Special Operations Executive considered an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler - an attempt that was never made. Duncan Anderson considers what might have ...