Jasmine Guama

Networks behind German Lines

Networks behind German Lines

Intelligence gathering in German-occupied Belgium during both wars has been disregarded in the main, but the impact of such efforts were highly significant.

In the history of the British Secret Service, SIS/MI6, two of its intelligence networks have been given high acclaim and both were in Belgium. They were La Dame Blanche (the White Lady) in the First World War and the Clarence Service in the Second World War. La Dame...

“War is War, Alas!”: The Story of The Laconia

“War is War, Alas!”: The Story of The Laconia

A sinking of a POW carrier by a U-boat in the South Atlantic exhibits in equal measure the brutality and humanity of Germany’s submarine strategy in the Second World War.

On the morning of 12 September 1942, off the West African coast, the watch officer aboard U-156 spotted a plume of smoke on the horizon. Already three weeks out of Lorient, U-156 – a Type IX submarine, on its fourth war patrol – was due to join a wolfpack in the...