Believable Lies

"While Britain hovered on the brink of the Second World War, a team of unlikely and ill-assorted characters assembled in their secret headquarters. They had left their civilian roles as politicians, novelists, spies, advertisers, artists and even forgers, to work for a covert government organisation. Their goals: to weaken enemy morale, sow confusion and encourage resistance. In the 'hush-hush' village of Apsley Guise near Woburn Abbey (8 miles from the codebreakers at Bletchley Park), they set to work. The once top-secret wartime efforts of the Political Warfare Executive were remarkable in…