One in a series of five movies that tell the stories of those caught up in the maelstrom of World War Two.
Movies: Dunkirk, Bombers and the Bombed, Evacuees, Secret Army, D-Day
Devised to encourage and organise resistance in occupied countries, Britain's Special Operation Executive (SOE) carried out some of the war's most hazardous work. The consequences of failure and capture were invariably torture and death.
Contributors
Major General V. H. J. Carpenter
Reg Davey
Jennifer D'Eath
Percy Duncan
Robert Holding
John Kirk
Thomas Lücker
Alan Miles
Phyllis Sewell
Roy Simon
Ann Wood
Voices performed by
Sean Baker
Tom Bevan
Russell Bentley
Deborah Berlin
Frances Jeater
Don McCorkindale
Jillie Mears
Stephen Thorne
Voice recordings directed by
Celia de Wolff
Archive audio
BBC Sound Archives
Historical and image consultants
Professor Duncan Anderson
Mike Brown
Carol Harris
Imperial War Museum
David List
Martin L Parsons
David Stafford
Charles Whiting
Neil Young
Images reproduced by courtesy of
AKG London
Alan Miles
L'Archive, La Mairie de Digne
Corbis
Coventry City Libraries
Henry Moore Foundation
Hulton Archive
Imperial War Museum, London
Lewisham Local Studies and Archives, London
Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Hansestadt Lübeck
The National Archives
Ken O'Brien Collection/Corbis
Pen & Sword Books
Special Forces Club
Swim Ink/Corbis
United States Coastguard
Wakefield MDC Cultural Services
Design and Macromedia Flash production
Wolf Lücker - Ash Luecker Ltd
John Pallot - Ash Luecker Ltd
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