US supply ship sunk by U-boat

17th August 1941: As the Battle of the Atlantic intensifies, survivors describe long hours adrift in an open boat before a passing corvette finds them.

The interrogation of a captured agent

The Security Service view of a man dropped by parachute — they had his cover story on file and knew almost to the hour when he would arrive.

Welcome to a prisoner-of-war camp

16th August 1941: British troops begin to fill up a large camp already familiar to French prisoners, soon to be familiar to many more.

Armour advances across the open desert

15th August 1941: A tank crew records the choking dust, the mechanical failures and the long silences between short, violent actions in North Africa.