The true story of the the misfits and mavericks who waged psychological warfare against the
Nazis September 1939. 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 journalists novelists and 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 Aspley 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 their variety and
inventiveness - from pornographic leaflet drops to rumour campaigns underground publications
and fake French and German radio shows. But to break Nazi morale these men and women found
themselves skirting the edges of their own morality. What do you lose when you deploy lies -
even brilliant believable lies - to achieve your ends?
