5 x 15 mins

One of the more bizarre characters to emerge from WW2 and described in these extracts from Ben MacIntyre's book was professional criminal Eddie Chapman. Finding himself in Jersey Prison at the time the Germans captured the island, Eddie came up with a brilliant escape plan - offer to work for the Germans as a spy.

Taking the bait, the Germans trained him and parachuted him into England, at which point he immediately offered his services to the British as a double agent, with great success