Watch History Channel Documentaries online: Episode 17 Churchill's Spy School

Churchill's Spy School tells the story of Noreen Riols, an 18 year old girl recruited in London in 1941 by spymaster Maurice Buckmaster. The young Noreen was sent by train to a secret location, which she later found out was the Beaulieu estate in the heart of the New Forest. The estate had been home to the Montagu family for generations, but during World War II was requisitioned by the SOE as a ‘finishing school’ for secret agents, who would be trained in some ’highly undesirable skills’ and then dropped behind enemy lines. Here Noreen spent the next two years officially employed as a secretary and driver, but actually becoming more and more involved in the day to day practical training of secret agents. Through Noreen’s memories and recollections, alongside the introduction of other characters including spies and instructors, we build a picture of life at Beaulieu, School for Spies.

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