In late-1943 Harry Rée, one of Britain's secret agents operating in eastern France, witnessed an RAF bombing mission on Peugeot's automobile factory in Sochaux
During the Second World War, the British military and intelligence agencies had plans in case Germany invaded Spain and Portugal. This involved training British
In February 1942, four passengers dismbarked in Scotland from one of a convoy of ships from Russia. Known as the COFFEE party, they had been sent to Britain as
For several months in 1943, seven young airmen, all volunteers, were moulded into an RAF crew tasked with undertaking perilous operations over Occupied Europe.
In November 1942 Anglo-American forces landed in French North Africa, which soon afterwards broke with Marshal Pétain’s Vichy regime in France and re-entered
