The second of eight stories about the Special Operations Executive
Narrated by Michael Bryant One of the tasks of SOE in World War II was to raise guerrilla forces in countries occupied by the enemy. Nowhere was this more important than in France where the Allied armies were going to have to fight their way ashore on D-Day against heavy German odds.
SOE sent hundreds of agents - men and women - into France over three years between 1941 and 1944. It was patient, dangerous and deadly work but it paid off -with spectacular results!
Film cameraman RICHARD ADAM Film editor MIKE APPELT Written and produced by DOMINIC FLESSATI