The Real Life British Secret Agents Of World War 2 | David Jason's Secret Service | Timeline

Sir David lifts the lid on true stories of unbelievable heroism in World War II and explores a world of cold-blooded assassins, crack saboteurs, elite commandos, real-life super-villains and the ultimate femmes fatales.
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[@Groovy_Bruce]

This Sir David fellow is about as charming as it gets. Should definitely do more with him if he is still around.

[@johnnylightning203]

Couldn't have picked a better host. Sir David, you're a peach!! The heroes of WWII will never be forgotten!

[@ToddSauve]

The person who uncovered 30AU and their work at the Dieppe raid was David O'Keefe, a Canadian historian. Read all about his expert detective work in his book "Dieppe Uncovered." The Nazis had added a fourth rotor to their naval Enigma machine and Bletchley Park were having a terrible time trying to decode their messages to the U boats in 1942. Consequently the North Atlantic convoys were facing much stiffer opposition. This was only discovered from declassified British documents at Kew about ten years ago. Over 900 Canadian troops were killed in the Dieppe raid. Just so you know what the cost of freedom is ...

[@user-vl8te2uo3r]

Thank you for a such a great documentary. Love spy stories. My favourites Frederick Forsyth John le Carre And obviously IAN FLEMING OO7 Just love yr historical narrative tinged with that tinge of humour. Bring back history in the classrooms I say.

[@johnfrymyer8346]

Sir David, you are a national treasure. Your style, flair and humor make you one of the best presenters I have ever seen. I wish I had the opportunity to meet you and shake your hand. Thank you.

[@bsilcott]

A wonderful story on some of the most courageous men and women of the Greatest Generation.

[@shadylennon5093]

9090⁹

[@beagledog2001]

well said!

[@Groovy_Bruce]

What was “the greatest generation” called before world war 2?

[@johnaaron37]

Greatest by whose determination? Sure as s--- not in the u.s.

[@AshleyHarleyman]

I’ll watch anything with Sir David Jason in it. The quintessential British everyman, from Del Boy to Frost, he is exceptional. As is this doco - informative and well researched. Bravo

[@zuzuspetals38]

This was a lovely program!! I felt my heart speed up sometimes thinking of the risk😬 I love seeing the older generations telling us how it really was! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🎉 Grandmothers and grandfathers tht were sooooo crafty during war times!!

[@batboy555]

You don't live to tell these stories I'd your are foolish.

[@sbk1983]

David Jason: Look out Germany, here I come! 😂😂😂 Just love that line! Great humor 😂

[@glenn-younger]

Love this fellow, Sir David. He made the story come alive with plenty of smiles along the way. Nice!

[@chrisrosenkreuz23]

We have this fascination with spies but the actual experience is as disconcerting and dehumanising as it is breathtaking. If you're not a sociopath when you first go into the trade, you're sure to develop such traits the more experience you gain. You have to use people, betray and discard them like a candy wrapper in the blink of an eye. Betrayal is addictive because it is so intense that no other feeling will ever be at the same intensity going forward, regardless of how good or bad it makes one feel. So one becomes desensitised to most other feelings which are lower in intensity. In order to feel alive one has no choice but to seek to repeat the experience, as dehumanising oneself then becomes the only humanising choice. Next level schizoid conditioning. That being said, I have a lot of respect for people in the trade because it's their gathered inteligence that's keeping us safe.

[@KootFloris]

Haha, or damage your country, if of the other side. Spies are like swords, they can cut both ways. But very worthwhile addition you made there. I think nowadays we have too many psychopaths in management rooms, making decisions that harm the planet.

[@chrisrosenkreuz23]

@@KootFloris thanks. Yes that's also true, I remember a couple years ago reading an article about how psychopaths tend to always ascend to positions of power. Like it was a prerequisite or something, and if you think about it, it makes sense. Because when you're at the top you can't keep your place unless you're ruthless so if anyone makes it long enough, you know for sure he is one. There can be exceptions ofc as always, but spread far and wide

[@kurilladesign]

people had purpose and courage , loyalty back then for good and truth.

[@christinemcclymont269]

Exactly

[@deceiver123m]

Lol

[@carolynlewis9019]

They put their lives on the line for freedom, we need to learn from them, and do the same in theses bad times of today, 2021! Thank God for their courage and wit.

[@christinemcclymont269]

Just read the final page of Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice by Susan Otway. The factual account of Anglo French sisters who served in SOE in France. One was captuted and survived torture and Ravensbruck. The epitome of the service people gave for the conviction to the values of that era.

[@carolynlewis9019]

@@christinemcclymont269 I'm going to read the book, thank you.

[@stacker62]

Great story! Had no idea about the connection between Ian Fleming and Dieppe. My Father was a bit too young for that raid, but did make it to Juno beach on D-Day, and luckily survived.

[@joecook5689]

Was he Canadian?

[@jinka6171]

Thank your father for his service. I salute him.

[@paolatrentadue3034]

I love David Jason ,I often watch him in the series "A touch of Frost" he plays a role of a smart inspector as well as he is playing in this documentary.Great Jason...

[@michellemunn7959]

I was reading a book called lost girls of Paris. All about these amazing women

[@jenniferkraushaar3452]

Pam Jenoff is fabulous author! Check out The Commandants Girl, it’s a great story as well!

[@iterman2357]

@@jenniferkraushaar3452 Thanks for the tip. I've just downloaded The lost girls of Paris in the Swedish translation.

[@MsMiklosa]

Not about thousands and thousands of Parisian girlfriends of Germans? Hordes of them with shaved heads after the war? Those who still had their hairs switched to Americans. Not about Coco Chanel ? And not about those who denounced Jews thus sending them to the death in Auschwitz? American leftists want to set 100 yrs back the founding of 🇺🇸 . The independence war was useless. 🇺🇸 was founded by the first slave on the continent. Interesting that it doesn’t go back to the first native Americans 🧐. It seems the West specialises in rewriting history.

[@willbe5994]

@@MsMiklosa 😂 someone has been feeding you a bunch of garbage

[@grettagirl2884]

This was just excellent. An exceptional portrait of the brilliance of the British SOE. David, you have every right to be proud of your heritage ❤! Bravo 👏.

[@arikjohnson412]

Brilliant 🇬🇧 loving these programs 🙏 keep them coming!

[@ENIGMAXII2112]

Yes... So we can see what the nice "governments" have done in the past. Seems like quite a lot of dirty work.. Can you imagine what they are up to now?

[@zachbell8252]

@@ENIGMAXII2112 does it matter? Are you a free citizen? Then shut up, I’ve earned my freedom in blood and so have a lot of others. People like me are the reason people like you exist

[@ENIGMAXII2112]

@@zachbell8252 What? What on Earth are you rambling on about? People like me don't just exist because of people LIKE YOU. Pretty obvious you must posses some type of psychopathy. Perhaps some narcissistic traits. It certainly does seem so. Judging by you your recent insane Madman response. I exist because I FIGHT for myself! And THAT only. And think for myself as well. If you cannot THINK for yourself. And buy that"Government" line that YOU are saving the world by "joining us". Or whoever/ WHATEVER, is brainwashing you? That Sir. is YOUR propagative.. Besides... I wager you we don't even live in the same country. Which makes YOUR line/ belief system of "other people exist because of Zach bell" Even MORE down right ridicules. Bordering on downright insane.... Clearly one of the more insane comments I have seen to date..

[@MsMiklosa]

During World War II, the Polish resistance Home Army (Armia Krajowa), which conducted military operations against occupying German forces, was also heavily involved in intelligence work. This included operations investigating the German Wunderwaffe: the V-1 flying bomb and the V-2 rocket. British intelligence received their first Polish report regarding the development of these weapons at Peenemünde in 1943. AK did alert the British as to the dangers posed by both missile designs, which led them to allocate more resources to bombing production and launching sites and thus lessened the eventual devastation caused by them. Also, the Operation Hydra bombing raid on Peenemünde, purportedly carried out on the basis of Home Army intelligence, did delay the V-2 by six to eight weeks. Wikipedia

[@paulkcormier]

THEY SHOULD MAKE A HUGE MOVIE ABOUT NANCY WAKE her courage and sacrifice made by so many is unforgettable but rather unknown to todays snowflakes media

[@sheilaboston7051]

The White Mouse. I believe there's a doco about her on YT, but not sure about a movie. Another incredibly brave SOE operative was Violette Szabo - book and movie Carve Her Name with Pride.

[@muhammadalkataan9487]

@@sheilaboston7051 41

[@vanderleicorrea4231]

Excellent video! 👏👏👏

[@Gedagnors]

What a great sense of humor! Gorgeous program!!!

[@louisetaylor3643]

Love you Antoine...jajaja.. ur a wonderful human...few and far between...I do thank you for the laughter u have brought to my life x

[@susanmerila4958]

I LLOVED him in A Touch of Frost. I've watched every episode I could find.

[@eatpigsnot]

this reminds me to recommend the 1947 film 13 Rue Madeleine. excellent movie!!!

[@gnparker]

What an excellent documentary. I have learned so much despite being a 007 FAN! Thanks.

[@chrisrosenkreuz23]

23:43 LMAO had to bump him off

[@MikeyDoe]

Nice better content than expected very good 5 stars if I could

[@chriscoates8675]

You forgot to mention William Stevenson, Fleming’s boss, the real master mind

[@scottfuller5194]

Neither Ian or his brother Peter Fleming ever worked for Stevenson.....Ian did meet him and know him when Stevenson was the British Security Coordination chief in New York.....get your facts straight.....!

[@Fastvoice]

@@scottfuller5194 @Cris Coates ... and his name was William Stephenson, not Stevenson. ;-)

[@margaretlambert3483]

@@Fastvoice Was he not called A Man Called Intrepid?

[@Fastvoice]

@@margaretlambert3483 Yes, Intrepid was his wartime intelligence codename.

[@dr.barrycohn5461]

Extraordinary!

[@joeysausage3437]

Outstanding video.

[@IASP17]

David looks so much like Churchill here

[@gentz8310]

I thought Trotter was much faster in opening door locks

[@ifeanyinwowu5948]

papa!, you would have made a wonderful spy actor in the big screens :)

[@sudiptahalderphotography9677]

The birth of bond ❤️❤️❤️❤️ beings here🎉🎉🎉

[@diversity2739]

Amazing!

[@fandangofandango2022]

Remarkable People / In Every Way.

[@XXISecolo]

At minute 5'22'' what's the name of theme in background?

[@brucefranklin1317]

Tru grit equals tru brit. The toughest dudes i ever heard of.

[@alexlanning712]

Could you do a doco on the SOE girls, particularly about the "White Mouse" who was a Kiwi born Australian

[@MrCaptzap]

These stories would make for marvelous films or a BBC series.

[@TonymanCS]

Live firing Welrod. Priceless.

[@SomervilleBob]

Though back in WW2, it would be for the King.

[@stevedolesch9241]

I love Frost. I miss that series.

[@fandangofandango2022]

Mr Jason thank You for Exposing these Great People.

[@aashutoshsharma1586]

Can you make a video about Bismarck 🙏

[@xtreame]

Much better host than the current Top Gear

[@tdtvegas]

What is the name of the training film they keep showing? With the girl agent? It’s on KZbin here somewhere.

[@Jacob.123]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnfGd42rq7-cf80

[@Jacob.123]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6SnhY2Bl7uNn9k

[@Jacob.123]

It’s one of these.

[@sedekiman]

Jacqueline Nearne. She and her sister Eileen were so courageous!

[@wildcolonialman]

Fabulous.

[@ronaldvanbeekveld8398]

Could you do a similar thing with sts 101

[@kontrabasso79]

some very intresting videos can be downloaded, some others cant

[@JB-gr6om]

Antoine is a little light in the loafers.

[@BadaBing_]

they were "creme de la menthe"...as a French would say

[@annemc7260]

Creme de la creme

[@donlaight5943]

Interesting video, could've chosen a better presenter that didn't have a light hearted demeanour

[@MsMiklosa]

Decimating of the almost non existent and highly inefficient - in comparison to say Polish Underground Home Army AK- French Resistance must not have been a difficult task. The undue fame of French Resistance is a PR trick, as true as the image of unique French lovers.

[@zoundstreetop]

Me watching the gun casually passed around. 😬

[@andreasleonardo6793]

Nice video about espionage activities of special British intelligence during 2WW

[@alexanderlittle9786]

I love that old lady. Shes so cool she could probably get me to spill at her current age. I cant even imagine how difficult it wouldve been when she was at her physical prime.

[@mattbielefield7038]

Del Boy and WW2 what could be better

[@norquay626]

Nearly 3500 killed, wounded and captured Canadians out of 5000 - therefore a final casualty rate of nearly 70% - and we've still got Brits trying to justify this stupid raid/battle. Not to mention the destroyer lost, over 200 planes, around 25% of the commandos. By the way, I'm not sure I heard the narrator once mention the Canadians or the total casualties (if I missed it please someone put the time into a reply). It never achieved anything but it was to be continuously justified in some form or fashion right up to the current time.

[@glennpickard2239]

I am also a Canadian. The idea of test at dieppe was good. D Day was in the future. The operation was wasteful of men and equipment, too long in France and LIMITED objectives

[@AaronHahnStudios]

11:46 lol, he has the "rake" upside down. Probably not edited out for the laugh.

[@julietbryden7169]

I totally agree with one comment they should make a movie about Nancy wake. Other brave women during world war 2. Weather they’re British or Northern Europen. As a suggestion maybe published book. So interesting of women my generation. And younger.

[@brucefranklin1317]

War is so violent. Ww2 was as righteous as a war could be. Rotten nazis were monsters. As evil as ever been.

[@SuperAaronbennett]

Nancy Wake was "The White Rabbit"

[@mynamedoesntmatter8652]

“Rabbit?” No, she was the ’White Mouse.’

[@tonimakaroni8477]

Del Boy😊👍🏻

[@Tawadeb]

Vera Atkins and the lost Women Agents of SOE by Sarah Helm

[@markmalic7450]

More like Maxwell Smart then 007 in that Sunbeam

[@diannerose8030]

Why have 3 of your chinese related videos been 'blocked in your country'. Im in australia

[@ladyponfarr5479]

Theres an older book called White Rabbit

[@erdinavdic]

And where did you leave Rodney?

[@dudezone7562]

Once upon a time real james bond was alive...

[@iterman2357]

Frost over France. Good show, Mr Jason. Oh sorry, Sir David I mean.

[@fandangofandango2022]

WOW.

[@barnylaine]

3:51 Christian Bale doppleganger

[@cringemuch1243]

Christian Bale mixed with Harrison Fird

[@barrydysert2974]

Excellent!:-) 🖖

[@destery8837]

Best spy ever 👍😃

[@oldtimer7635]

That show is little silly, but Jack Frost....sorry, David Jason is amazing actor. : )

[@MrDavidJMa]

Awful pronunciation of Jean Moulin!!

[@davidbenner2289]

Cloak & Dagger? Ha! That would be dear old dad. Lol! He was the American component, 1950 onward, his comrades left over from WWII's OSS. The Cold War was dad's war. Dropped into Communist China a few times. Stealth aircraft? Former "Flying Tigers" became contract pilots for "Air America", flying dad everywhere. It was an interesting upbringing all over the World. Think if my dad as Jason Bourne, married with children. Lol! He is a legend, living on after his death.

[@robertthomas583]

My late uncle and late ex-father-in-law who I never got to meet as well. My uncle was in the 82nd Airborne. He was also in the OSS, I'm sure they all were to gather intelligence, but he mainly killed Germans. My father-in-law was an Army major, in what unit I don't know, having never gotten to talk to him. However, when my wife was younger, he asked her to get something out of his closet. She had seen his major's uniform but had never seen the German officer's uniform hanging next to it. He was a spy. Who knows, your dad may have been acquainted with them.

[@davidbenner2289]

@@robertthomas583 dad was Army Air Force Medical Corps in WWII. He started his spy career and special gurilla unit leader of native troops in 1950. Most of the guys were OSS and Pacific Theater combat Marines. You've read about some of them in books. It's a small community but his was compartmentalized into very few knowing about him. When I translated for the Hmong refugees from the Laotian Civil War they would tell stories about my dad, the lives he saved and the men he fought with. Most how died now, time takes us all. I'm 70 now. Dad would be around 97 if he still lived. So, most in there 90's by now.

[@kmac4124]

You gotta love the Britts !!!

[@danicornea]

Although I love David Jason as an brilliant actor, I am not impressed by these series...They show us what they decide to share....nothing more....Still a very good british style documentary ...

[@Likexner]

Youre not impressed but you think its very good? **visible confusion**

[@danicornea]

@@Likexner Let me put it this way mate: David Jason did everything in his skills to produce an interesting film...ok!?So there is no confusion about that...rest is history...

[@alanniederlitz8630]

Rogue Male. Geoffrey Household

[@orange70383]

I was once accused of being a government spy at work, I've no idea why. I was asked if I was cia or nsa, I just turned and walked away.

[@willmfrank]

You should have said "UNCLE; Google it." And then walked away.

[@malcolmallerton3946]

Like your car

[@MsMiklosa]

32 000 Gestapo guys in Paris, 30 000 of them in bed with their French mistresses anf 2 000 in Moulin Rouge …😂😂😂

[@joezephyr]

"I only blown the doors off". :). :). :)

[@ecosby100]

Bond. James Bond

[@lolhyena1714]

19:53 So who is gene Mullen and what happened to him? Honestly I think that’s fake

[@royappleby8504]

Australians are famously bad at foreign languages ,but an historical 'expert' ça me choque !!

[@lolhyena1714]

@@royappleby8504 thanks it’s Jean Moulin. I didn’t think she would be THAT bad. It’s French

[@ajaydesecond2660]

Leaking bucket lol

[@wandachaney8401]

38:

[@shanejones7906]

It must be easy to film a historical documentary in Britian. It's like you can stand in front of Buckingham palace one minute then walk across the street and be standing on the white cliffs of Dover and catch a cab and after a 3 minute ride, your in the North of Scotland. What tiny lil country 🤣

[@bradwalden546]

I can’t say how much I despise the guy doing the history hit promo at the start...! Is it just me?

[@annapurna2389]

Yes. He is trying be Steve Irwin but it's phony.

[@Manuel-gu9ls]

The original Kingsman

[@kevinmorningstar9183]

The only kingsmen*

[@MediaSLSecondLife]

extraordinary 😜

[@jamesw.blatch1584]

Who else fast forwards until he stops talking....

[@bunnycute666]

Perfide Albion..

[@txd337gaming2]

17:47 how not to handle a firearm 18:12 how to handle a firearm

[@stephaniemay792]

Who else remembers 'the secret life of Edgar Briggs? Lol,

[@nethu7171]

Sorry to bring politics to this. When watching series like this it breaks my heart to see the buffoons who have taken over the British parliament today. I'm not even from England.

[@unmaskscience111]

This feels like a documentary for mentally slow people. That's good. I couldn't even tolerate for 5 minutes

[@kingayrton8327]

del boy :)))))))))))))

[@Colin-Fenix]

I don’t appreciate that Timeline has added these History Hits advertisements with Dan to all their videos and I am considering canceling my subscription since I pay extra for Premium KZbin to avoid ads. I am not interested in Dan’s new channel and I consider his ads a waster of my time and am offended that they have gotten around the removal of ads to Premium subscribers by adding ads at the beginning of every video. Sure, I can and do fast-forward past Dan, but I don’t appreciate it and therefore every video, regardless of quality of content, will get a thumbs down from now on.

[@willbe5994]

Go get yourself a snickers