True Spies Classic: Seven Female Spies WW2

Aug 11, 202642:54Society & Culture

During the Second World War, Vera Atkins sent hundreds of British spies into Occupied France. Some of them never came back - and nobody knew why. Vanessa Kirby shares the story of one woman's mission to find answers in t...

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