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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Before officially joining the ranks of the SOE in the summer of 1944, Del Din had carried out another high-risk mission on behalf of Osoppo and Major Manfred Czernin, a British liaison officer who ...

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

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 ...

The British legend returns to ONE Championship after a short-lived retirement and will take on the hard-hitting Soe Lin Oo in a bantamweight Muay Thai showdown at ONE 173: Denver on August 1 at ...

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 ...