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Kim Philby was the most successful mole the Soviets had in Britain. He rose to be head of counterintelligence, sending to Moscow details of almost every Anglo-American spy operation for 20 years and costing hundreds of lives.

In the summer of 1941, at the heighr of the war in the Western Desert, a bored young officer, David Sterling, came up with a plan that was radical and entirely against the rules: a small, undercover unit that would inflict mayhem behind enemy lines - the Special Air Service.
Seventy-five years later historan Ben MacIntyre was iven access to the secret archives of the SAS and the result is a thriling true tale of renegade men taking monumental risks.

The story of Ursala Burton, Agent Sonya, whp from 1928 through 1950 was one of the Soviet Union's most successful spies. She eluded the Chinese government the Japanese, thde Nazis, MI5, MI6 and the FBI.

The story of a KGB agent who was a MI6 and his successful extraction from the Soviet Union when threatened with exposure.

Two British naval officers devised a scheme to mislead the Nazis about where the allies would attack Southern Europe. MacIntyre details how they created an officer and planted a dead man in Nazi-friendly Spain. The ruse caused the Germans to shift forces from Sicily to Greece.

The story of Violet Szabo,widowed at the Battle of El Alamein, who joined the British SOE as a secret agent in France. She was parachuted into Limooges in June 1944 to co-ordinate the the work of the Resistance in the first days after D-Day. Captured ny a panzer division, she was handed over to th Gestapo in Paris. She was sent to Revensbruck concentration camp and executed in January 1945. Szabo was posthumously awared th George Cross and the Croix de Guerre.