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Teaching is in French, but every formation is walked through even if you don’t speak French - and many in the group will be happy to speak English.
Every Friday at 7pm from September to June. Check our website for precise dates and times and also updates on our tariffs.
The Admiral was a key figure in many of the operations that helped change the course of the Second World War. He was Allied Naval Commander in Chief for: • Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of Dunkirk May 1940, • Operation Fuller, the defence of the English Channel from 2 German Battleships Feb 1942, • Operation Torch, North Africa invasion in Nov 1942, • Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily in July 1943, • Operation Neptune, the D-day Landings of June 1944.
Admiral Ramsay, whose Headquarters was the Chateau de Hennemont (Lycée International), perished in the crash of his private Hudson aircraft on take-off at Toussus-le-Noble aerodrome on 2nd January 1945.
Under Suttill's leadership the Prosper network was SOE's most important network in France. Suttill was captured by the Germans in his lodgings at 18 rue de Mazagran in Paris on 24 June 1943 as part of a huge roundup of resistance agents. After suffering months of torture Suttill was sent to the Sachenhausen concentration camp and executed in March 1945.