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The new Guy Ritchie-directed movie stars Henry Cavill, Alan Ritchson, and more in an action-packed real-life WWII heist. Heres whats real and whats fiction.

Guy Ritchie’s film shows how Churchill, Ian Fleming and their SOE daredevils executed one of the riskiest missions of WW2. What’s the truth?

Guy Ritchie’s new film sees Alan Ritchson and Henry Cavill dispatching Nazis in a true story from World War II.

Heres the true story of Operation Postmaster, which inspires Guy Ritchies new film "The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare"

In January 1942, Gus March-Phillipps (depicted by Henry Cavill) and Anders Lassen played key roles in a mission that seemed more at home in a spy novel than reality.

LORD ASHCROFT: Today, with the help of Ogden-Smiths relatives and residents living in and close to the village of Querrien, I can recount the extraordinary events of July 29, 1944.

Submitting... That night the unit – which specialised in cross-Channel raids, snatching prisoners for interrogation and recceing enemy installations – infiltrated the tiny island off the coast of Normandy, arriving by specially-silenced motor torpedo boat. Renowned for their daring and fearlessness, they killed a guard and captured five Germans, binding their hands. But the prisoners resisted and raised the alarm. The order was given to shoot any who tried to flee. Three ended up dead and o...

Scotsman obituaries: James Edgar, Special Operations Executive agent awarded the Legion d’Honneur Alison Shaw Vet and Special Operations Executive agent. Born: 21 May, 1920, in Pietersburg, South Africa. Died: 17 March, 2021, in Perth, Australia, aged 100 © James Edgar served in the Channel Islands, France and Burma as part of ‘Churchill’s Secret Army’ James Edgar was one of the audacious undercover agents whose infamous raid on a Nazi-occupied Channel Island led to H...