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  2. Aug 12, 2024 · Operation Postmaster was an audacious and meticulously planned clandestine mission, carried out by the Special Operations Executive in January 1942, with the objective of undermining and disrupting Axis supply lines. SOE had been established in 1940 by UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

  3. Apr 19, 2024 · ‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’: Here’s the True Story of Operation Postmaster. Yes, Guy Ritchie’s film is based on real events – but they went a little differently. Lionsgate

  4. Jul 25, 2024 · It’s a great story, but what’s even more impressive is that it’s actually true: the whole film is based on the real-life events of Operation Postmaster, one of the Special Operations...

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  5. Apr 19, 2024 · Two members of the real-life Small Scale Raiding Force (SSRF) team involved in Operation Postmaster, Richard Lippett and Leonard Guise, are not directly represented in The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. As stated earlier, Lippett was transformed into Babs Olusanmokun's character, Richard Heron.

  6. Apr 23, 2024 · Based on historian Damien Lewis’s non-fiction book, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare follows the exploits of a real Allied special forces unit in the early part of World War II. Called...

  7. Apr 19, 2024 · In fact, documents concerning an essential mission, dubbed Operation Postmaster and undertaken by the British War Office, were only recently declassified.

  8. Jul 29, 2024 · Its first ever field operation was Operation Postmaster, which just so happens to be the inspiration for Ritchie's film, with the screenplay based on author and filmmaker Damien Lewis's...