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Dieppe Raid commemorated with postcard campaign 80 years later

Friday marks 80 years since the Dieppe Raid, and a campaign to remember fallen soldiers in one of the Canadian military s darkest day has postcards being sent to hundreds of addresses across the country. ....

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Violette Szabo: British spy who fought Nazis to avenge French husband

She fearlessly worked as a special agent during World War Two, and is remembered today as a war hero in both the UK and France
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The British Jewish spy who fooled the Gestapo for years before he was gunned down in Nazi death camp

Marcus Bloom (pictured above) was a businessman before he joined the Special Operations Executive (SOE)
Marcus Bloom was an unlikely spy. A bon viveur who followed a playboy lifestyle of swish apartments, expense accounts and beautiful women, he was far from the dashing, image of a secret agent.
He drove a pale blue convertible Delage classic car, an icon of French style, was often seen at the wheel sporting a white pilot s flying helmet, and owned a Great Dane called Sphinx.
In his mid-30s with a balding head, reddish moustache and a figure turned decidedly portly from the good life, he even struggled to enlist at the start of World War Two. ....

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