Codenamed Dorset - The Wartime Exploits of Major Colin Ogden-Smith Commando and SOE (Jacobs Peter)(Paperback / softback)

This gripping history details the remarkable exploits of a Commando and Special Operations Executive operative during the Second World War. It is a story of extreme courage and a revealing portrait of a man who ultimately gave his life for the liberation of France. This is the first time his story has been told in full.

Colin Ogden-Smith was among the first to volunteer for the newly created Commandos. In 1942 he transferred to the SOE and joined the elite Small Scale Raiding Force to carry out raids across the Channel. He participated in Operation Branford, a raid to the island of Burhou, just north of Alderney, on 7 September 1942, and then, later in the year, Operation Basalt, a Commando attack on Sark.

With the approach of the D-Day landings, Ogden-Smith volunteered for a new, clandestine group known as the Jedburghs - which represented the first real
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