The new movie takes inspiration from the remarkable stories of women spies serving during World War II. Here's the real history behind A Call to Spy.

I n a very BBC-like attempt at balance, Channel 4’s WW2: Women on the Frontline included a Nazi in its stories of female spies. Alongside the likes of Noor Inayat Khan, the British SOE agent ...

The SOE’s leaders were readier than the old boys of MI5 and MI6, the foreign-intelligence agency, to grant that women enjoyed certain advantages.

She and three other SOE women agents were shot dead at Dachau concentration camp on 13 September 1944. A monument to her bravery was erected in Gordon Square Gardens in London.

But more than 70 years ago, a group of intrepid women was recruited to fight alongside men as agents by a secret British organization called the Special Operations Executive (SOE). In all, 3,200 ...

TV; TV News; World War 2; Female WW2 spy betrayed by double agent shouted single word of defiance before death A new Sky History docu-drama, The Lost Women Spies, uncovers the incredible stories ...

By the time Hardy Amies linked up with the SOE, he was already a well-known staple of Britain’s fashion industry. The Fashion Designer Who Became a Lethal Spy Chief During World War II ...

Victories in World War II weren’t just achieved by men. A cohort of courageous women worked as spies and operatives in intelligence agencies around the world, risking their lives to seek out ...

"Women are the hidden figures of D-Day," says Rose, who started researching the history of women in combat and was surprised to learn that their roles dated back to World War II.

It is shocking that it wasn’t until 60 years after VE Day before the nation honoured the Women of World War II in a monument unveiled by the late Queen Elizabeth in 2005. Her Majesty had served ...