How an army of curtain twitchers outsmarted Adolf’s German spies in wartime Britain
Eighty years ago in 1940, a dark cloud of suspicion verging on paranoia hung heavily over the British Isles. The country was at war with Nazi Germany and Hitler’s forces were camped just across the English Channel. Invasion seemed inevitable and imminent, and the country went into a form of lockdown, with barbed wire on … Read more