Britain's secret WWII resistance fighters

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The heroics of the French resistance during World War II have gone down in the history books, but few people know that Britain had an army of resistance fighters too.

The hidden defence force was set up in secret when the threat of invasion by Hitler was ever-present.

Robert Hall reports.

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