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True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

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How to Build a Network of Guerrilla Fighters

In September 1941, Virginia Leonais left Vichy for Lyon in Free France. She used her real name and soon set to work reporting on the situation there. Her final briefing took place in an SOE safe house in London. It was here that the full weight of her mission was made clear. But how do you build a network of guerrilla fighters across a quarter of a million square miles of enemy territory? No one knew because no one had ever tried until now.

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