Exactly at one in the morning on Saturday, November 6, 1943, Reichsführer SS and head of the state secret police Heinrich Himmler received a seemingly simple message: “The eagle has landed.” But this meant that a small detachment of German paratroops had landed safely in England with the task of kidnapping Prime Minister Winston Churchill from his estate in Norfolk, where he was spending a relaxing weekend by the sea. The book you are holding in your hands is an attempt to recreate the events around this promotion. At least half of what is told is documented historical fact. The reader must decide for himself which of the second half is fiction and which is the fruit of reflection...