It was an Academy for Assassins – the most secretive killing house in Scotland during World War II.
Arisaig House in Lochaber, Inverness-shire was seized by the military after the fall of France in 1940. Now the 12-bedroom mansion with 18 acres has been placed on the market for £2.25million.
During the war, Commandos deployed by the Special Operations Executive were taken there and trained in the dark arts of silent killing.
Operatives trained by the executive went on to carry out one of the most audacious assassinations of the war – the execution of Reinhard Heydrich, Butcher of Prague, while being driven in his open-top Mercedes car in 1942.
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