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Adam Hart: Operation Pimento: My Great – Grandfather’s Great Escape

An exclusive insight into a story of courage, survival and legacy, as Adam Hart joins us for an in-conversation event to discuss his powerful new biography, Operation Pimento. Interviewer to be announced.

 

This event finished on Saturday 30 May 2026

Genre: History, Politics and Current Affairs

Location: Chapel

Duration: 60 minutes

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Adam Hart: Operation Pimento: My Great – Grandfather’s Great Escape

Nominated for the 2025 Hatchards Biography Prize, this gripping true story follows RAF Squadron Leader Frank Griffiths’ escape after his plane was shot down over Nazi-occupied France during the Second World War. Decades later, Griffiths’ great-grandson Adam Hart retraces Frank’s remarkable journey across Europe, meeting the descendants of those who risked their own lives to shelter and protect him.

Join us for an insightful discussion uncovering the hidden acts of bravery behind this extraordinary story, and exploring how memory, family and history intertwine. Written by 25-year-old writer and journalist Adam Hart, Operation Pimento has already drawn praise from by Anthony Horowitz who describes Hart as ‘a writer to watch out for’.

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