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After the fall of France in the mid-1940s, Adolf Hitler faced a British Empire that refused to negotiate for peace. With total war looming, he ordered the Abwehr, Germany's defense and intelligence organization, to carry out Operation Lena - a program to place information-gathering spies within Britain. Quickly, a network of secret agents spread within the United Kingdom and across the British Empire. The stunning truth, though, was that every last one of these German spies had been captured and turned by the British.

The principal criminal court of England, historically reserved for the more serious and high-profile trials, Court Number One opened its doors in 1907 after the building of the 'new' Old Bailey. In the decades that followed it witnessed the trials of the most famous and infamous defendants of the twentieth century. It was here that the likes of Madame Fahmy, Lord Haw Haw, John Christie, Ruth Ellis, George Blake (and his unlikely jailbreakers, Michael Randle and Pat Pottle), Jeremy Thorpe and Ian Huntley were defined in history....

Die unglaublichsten Geschichten schreibt immer das Leben. Johann-Nielsen Jebsen und Duško Popov – nachweislich reale Vorbilder für Ian Flemings James Bond – lernen sich in Nazi-Deutschland kennen und werden enge Freunde. Beide genießen ihr luxuriöses Leben, beide geraten als Doppelagenten für das Dritte Reich und Großbritannien zwischen die Fronten des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Und beide spielen als die erfolgreichsten Doppelagenten des D-Days eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Landung der Alliierten in der Normandie am 6. Juni 1944. Ohne sie hätte der Zweite Weltkrieg vielleicht eine andere Wendung genommen.