Secret War

Intelligence officer Vera Atkins, said to be the influence for Miss Moneypenny, traced the fate of 118 missing SOE agents after the end of WWII.

Operation North Pole was a mission mounted by the Germans that delivered false information to British security services. In all, 47 Allied agents were captured.

Acts of courage from World War II. Top SAS man Roy Farran and SOE agent Michael Lees led a bold attack on a German HQ in Italy with a group of misfit partisans.

Monty Woodhouse wrote his name in history by helping to destroy the Gorgopotamos Bridge in 1942, disrupting German supplies in occupied Greece.

Unshrouding the mystery of WWII espionage. Operation Cockade was meant to unsettle the Nazis, but triple agent Henri Dericourt threw a spanner in the works.

Polish-born SOE agent Christine Granville gathered vital information with the French Resistance and had an incredible confrontation with the Gestapo.

WWII espionage tales. Spanish agent Juan Pujol worked for the Brits while sending misleading information to the Germans - including false details of the Normandy landing.

Fitzroy MacLean was handpicked by Winston Churchill to parachute into Yugoslavia and unite with Tito's Partisans against the Germans.

The story of Sir Charles Hambro and the two operations - Grouse and Gunnerside - he oversaw that helped stop the Nazis from developing nuclear technology.

The real-life James Bond, daring ladies' man Dusan Popov worked as a double agent, bankrolled by both the Germans and MI6 on his missions.

In 1942, the British army was locked in a deadly struggle in the North African desert with Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps. Few were as motivated as 40 or so German-speaking Jews of the Special Interrogation Group.

A celebrated postwar fashion designer and style icon, Hardy Amies was one of the most unlikely spymasters of World War II.

A rare glimpse into the perilous world of wartime espionage. The Americans struck a deal with the Mafia to glean data from the Germans on the Atlantic coast.