The Petit Network
August 16, 2024
Helen Fry— Twenty-two-year-old Gabrielle Petit was formally recruited by an officer of the British Service in the summer of 1915 while crossing the Channel by boat to England.1 The Belgian had… READ MORE
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Ep. 128 — The Remarkable Stories of Women in British Intelligence
December 14, 2023
From spies in the Belgian network “La Dame Blanche,” knitting coded messages into jumpers, to those who interpreted aerial images and even ran entire sections, Helen Fry shows just how… READ MORE
The Cookery Book
October 17, 2023
Helen Fry— During wartime women were a valuable source of intelligence-gathering because they could move much more freely in occupied countries than men. They used their “invisibility” to gather and… READ MORE
The ‘Oskar Schindler’ of Vienna
February 19, 2021
Helen Fry— 11 March 1943. In a cell at Latimer House in Buckinghamshire, two German soldiers, a lower rank infantry officer captured in Tunisia the previous year, and a paratrooper… READ MORE
The Secret Army Behind Enemy Lines in World War II
November 4, 2020
Helen Fry— Thousands of courageous men and women led escape lines and acted as couriers and guides across Western Europe as well as other theatres of war, including the Far… READ MORE
Bugging the Nazis in World War II
October 29, 2019
Helen Fry— In 1939 British intelligence took over Trent Park in North London, the former country house of the aristocrat Sir Philip Sassoon. The house was “wired for sound,” and… READ MORE
Caged lies and Truth drugs
October 20, 2017
Helen Fry— The allegations of brutality at the London Cage are shocking enough, but evidence emerges to reveal for the first time in this book that Colonel Scotland apparently sanctioned… READ MORE
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