EXCLUSIVE: The Express attended the landmark gathering which comes weeks before the UK prepares to mark 80 years since the ...

SOE agent Jack Agazarian and leading members of the German resistance to the Nazis - including Wilhelm Canaris, the head of German military intelligence - had been executed there only weeks earlier.

In the last months of World War Two, aircrews from an Essex airfield were responsible for dropping secret agents and supplies into enemy occupied territory. The men of 295 and 570 Squadrons, based ...

The first of them, which is the main subject of the book, is the war conducted by British soldiers who were infiltrated by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) into occupied Albania in 1943 and ...

Agents who fell at this initial hurdle would be sent to the 'cooler' at Inverlair, in Invernesshire. In June 1943 SOE introduced a more streamlined method for the initial selection of students.

A remote Scottish lodge used to keep foreign secret agents far away from trouble during World War II is now up for sale.

SOE agents are credited with some major WWII victories, including the destruction of a key installation for an atomic weapon in Norway; the kidnap of German General Heinrich Kreipe in Crete; and ...

Andrée Borrel was the first female SOE agent to parachute into France during World War II, but her jumping partner, 37-year-old Lise de Baissac, was right behind her.

A deadly weapon, which looks like a simple pen and was used by WWII British sabotage secret agents, has emerged for sale at auction, and sold for four times its estimated worth ...

Andrée Borrel was the first female SOE agent to parachute into France during World War II, but her jumping partner, 37-year-old Lise de Baissac, was right behind her.