By the time Hardy Amies linked up with the SOE, he was already a well-known staple of Britain’s fashion industry.

A Greek-speaking British spy carried out solo espionage missions during WWII, inspiring Ian Fleming’s James Bond character.

For those secret ops, the British Secret Service often equipped its officers and operatives with discreet tools to assist ...

The Shetland Bus convoys were part of the Norwegian branch of the SOE, supporting the resistance movement in Norway. Between ...

There is no sentimentality or heroine worship in this account of the women SEO agents active in occupied Europe during the ...

The idea for the 'exploding' rat - now immortalised as part of the SOE legend - was developed in 1941. The aim was to blow up the enemy's boilers by lying the rat on the coal beside the boiler ...

Prejudice was still so profound, however, that women in the British Armed Forces were not allowed to carry weapons. Yet the maverick SOE had run into a problem. Able-bodied men of conscription age ...

In the last months of World War Two, aircrews from an Essex airfield were responsible for dropping secret agents and supplies ...

Violette Szabo was a British-French secret agent, recruited by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during World War II.

The Prince of Wales told of his son’s interest in learning about the Second World War and a centenarian performed a magic ...

They also came in the form of briefcases. To open the case safely, the SOE agent had to make sure that the right hand lock was pressed down and held to the right. If this wasn't done, the left ...