Discover how a hardware salesman changed the fate of nations and helped with WW2.

Churchill once said: "In war the truth is so valuable that it must be protected by a bodyguard of lies." At the outset of WW2 in the face of Nazi aggression and American apathy, the British PM required facts and fiction to achieve his goal of defending his "Island Fortress", Churchill trusted one man to generate both.

This is the story of Sir William Stephenson, who the character of James Bond is supposed to be based on.