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Adam Hart

@adamharthistory

25yo historian and author! 📕 Operation Pimento 🎥 @bbcantiquesroadshow @itvnews ✍️ @thetimes @telegraph 🗣️ @bbcradio4 @timesradio

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Operation Pimento. A secret WW2 mission that ended in tragedy, kickstarting an epic escape. But the story doesn’t end there. Link in bio. 🔥


Wild question on the US ESTA application - what happens if you tick yes?!

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+ whoever made that theme tune! Throughout my childhood it always signalled the sound of summer.

This group of people, and their predecessors, have shaped cycling in the UK for decades. Take a bow: Ned Boulting David Millar Daniel Friebe Gary Imlach Matt Rendell Pete Kennaugh Alex Dowsett Jacobo Guarnieri + anyone I've missed, the production team and everyone behind the…

daniellloyd1's tweet image. This group of people, and their predecessors, have shaped cycling in the UK for decades.

Take a bow:
Ned Boulting
David Millar
Daniel Friebe 
Gary Imlach
Matt Rendell
Pete Kennaugh
Alex Dowsett
Jacobo Guarnieri
+ anyone I've missed, the production team and everyone behind the…


Sad day for cycling. I got into the sport as a 10yo watching Contador, the Schlecks, Cadel Evans, Tommy Voeckler etc racing @LeTour on free to air @itvcycling Sad to think as of next year 10yo’s won’t be able to watch cycling’s greatest showpiece without paying! #viveletour

The Last One ⏰10:05pm 📺ITV4 & ITVX #TDF2025

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⏰10:05pm
📺ITV4 & ITVX

#TDF2025


Not a bad Monday morning. C’mon England!

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The soundtrack of summer! Spot on from @t_davidson , I’ll be sad to hear it this summer for the last time.

Ever wondered what ITV's Tour de France theme song is called? How it was made? What inspired it? I tracked down the man who produced it more than 20 years ago, and got all the answers cyclingweekly.com/news/i-dont-wa…



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@adamharthistory spoke to our colleagues at @AboutHistoryMag on his new book 'Operation Pimento: My Great Grandfather’s Escape.' The book recounts Frank Griffiths' escape to Switzerland after his crashlanding in occupied France. ➡️ Read today: history-of-war.visitlink.me/-Gss4b


Just the eight decades between us… Truly an honour to meet Colin Bell at Chalke History Festival on Saturday. Funny, insightful, eloquent, Colin (at 104) is the oldest living RAF veteran of WW2 (and the first veteran I have ever met). Really special memory. #WW2 #remember

adamharthistory's tweet image. Just the eight decades between us… 

Truly an honour to meet Colin Bell at Chalke History Festival on Saturday. 

Funny, insightful, eloquent, Colin (at 104) is the oldest living RAF veteran of WW2 (and the first veteran I have ever met). 

Really special memory.

#WW2 #remember

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In Operation Pimento, debut author Adam Hart combines biography, history book, espionage epic, travel memoir, and love letter to a family member who passed before he was born, but shaped our world in immeasurable ways ✍️ Molly Stubbs wp.me/p8Mk4U-10LK

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Book review: Operation Pimento by Adam Hart

Molly Stubbs  Before Frank Cromwell Griffiths became a test pilot at RAF Christchurch in 1940, before he was on the cutting edge of technology that ultimately won the allies the war, his life seemed...


Red arrows have gone a bit French.


Couldn’t have asked for a nicer bookshop and crowd to do my first ever ‘author talk’ about my book Operation Pimento. Thank you so much everyone who came and particularly everyone who asked such good questions! Huge thanks @CWBookshop 😁

Such a pleasure to welcome @adamharthistory to #Chorleywood last night! Adam gave a fascinating talk about his book OPERATION PIMENTO, which tells the remarkable story of his great-grandfather's escape across France, Switzerland & Spain during #WW2 *Signed copies* in our shops!

CWBookshop's tweet image. Such a pleasure to welcome @adamharthistory to #Chorleywood last night!

Adam gave a fascinating talk about his book OPERATION PIMENTO, which tells the remarkable story of his great-grandfather's escape across France, Switzerland & Spain during #WW2

*Signed copies* in our shops!
CWBookshop's tweet image. Such a pleasure to welcome @adamharthistory to #Chorleywood last night!

Adam gave a fascinating talk about his book OPERATION PIMENTO, which tells the remarkable story of his great-grandfather's escape across France, Switzerland & Spain during #WW2

*Signed copies* in our shops!
CWBookshop's tweet image. Such a pleasure to welcome @adamharthistory to #Chorleywood last night!

Adam gave a fascinating talk about his book OPERATION PIMENTO, which tells the remarkable story of his great-grandfather's escape across France, Switzerland & Spain during #WW2

*Signed copies* in our shops!


Adam Hart reposted

Such a pleasure to welcome @adamharthistory to #Chorleywood last night! Adam gave a fascinating talk about his book OPERATION PIMENTO, which tells the remarkable story of his great-grandfather's escape across France, Switzerland & Spain during #WW2 *Signed copies* in our shops!

CWBookshop's tweet image. Such a pleasure to welcome @adamharthistory to #Chorleywood last night!

Adam gave a fascinating talk about his book OPERATION PIMENTO, which tells the remarkable story of his great-grandfather's escape across France, Switzerland & Spain during #WW2

*Signed copies* in our shops!
CWBookshop's tweet image. Such a pleasure to welcome @adamharthistory to #Chorleywood last night!

Adam gave a fascinating talk about his book OPERATION PIMENTO, which tells the remarkable story of his great-grandfather's escape across France, Switzerland & Spain during #WW2

*Signed copies* in our shops!
CWBookshop's tweet image. Such a pleasure to welcome @adamharthistory to #Chorleywood last night!

Adam gave a fascinating talk about his book OPERATION PIMENTO, which tells the remarkable story of his great-grandfather's escape across France, Switzerland & Spain during #WW2

*Signed copies* in our shops!

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