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

They will have prime spots to watch the military parade and flypast in central London as part the nation’s VE Day 80th ...

Set Europe ablaze.” Those were the instructions of Prime Minister Winston Churchill when in June 1940, as Hitler stomped across Europe. With the beaten back British forces unable to mount any kind of ...

It sounds like it could be the plot of a spy novel, but the "Shetland Bus" was a real undercover operation carried out to ...

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

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 ...

British and Commonwealth armed forces veterans ... age of 18 in to the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), worked in the SOE, transported forged documents and helped agents behind enemy lines.

the British Army and the Royal Air Force, plus Wrens, SOE members, D-Day veterans and Desert Rats were among those attending the tea party.