One of the enduring secrets of World War II is how German intelligence tricked the British ... As a result of his and others' messages, more than 50 of the Special Operation Executive (SOE) agents ...

"One well-publicised agent who dropped from Rivenhall was Jos Gemmeke; she escaped to the UK, carrying microfilm of V1 rocket sites after the failure at Arnhem, where she was trained by SOE ...

Established in June 1940 in London, the SOE was a volunteer force set up to wage a secret war behind enemy lines. Prime Minister Winston Churchill famously ordered the SOE’s agents to “set ...

SOE Syllabus: Lessons in Ungentlemanly Warfare - World War II (Secret History Files) by Denis Rigden (Public Record Office, 2001) The Women Who Lived for Danger: The Women Agents of SOE in the ...

But, sending women to the frontline in World War 2 was illegal - so they ... what happened to women agents who ‘disappeared’. When the war ended, 100 SOE agents were missing, including 16 ...

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 ...

Atkins joined the French arm of the SOE as a civilian secretary and soon became assistant to a section head and so began her career in intelligence. Recruiting and deploying British agents in ...

SOE Syllabus: Lessons in Ungentlemanly Warfare - World War II (Secret History Files) by Denis Rigden (Public Record Office, 2001) The Women Who Lived for Danger: The Women Agents of SOE in the ...