London Lyon Liberation and the Resistance 1940-1944: in 'Dark Years' of WWII.

France is under German occupation. The Allies are planning the D Day landings. On both sides of the English Channel underground clandestine movements are secretly mobilising to help pave the way for the Allied invasion. In Baker Street in London Vera Atkins from F Section in the Special Operations Executive is training agents, including women, to operate and survive in enemy territory. In Lyon Jean Moulin is uniting the various sections of the French Resistance and creating the Armee Secrete under orders from the exiled General de Gaulle in London. Marcel Marceau and the Jewish French Resistance are helping Jewish children escape the Gestapo and deportation. Virginia Hall, the American limping lady, is organising and fighting with the local Lyon Resistance and the rural Maquis. Lucie Aubrac is fighting the Nazis in tandem with her husband in Lib-Sud in the traboules of Lyon. Simone Bossi is a young girl passing on vital information to local resisters as she cycles around her native city. Residing in Hotel Terminus Klaus Barbie is conducting a terrifying reign of brutality. He has turned Lyon into a city of fear earning him the moniker "The Butcher of Lyon. London and Lyon are working in unison to help liberate France, defeat the Wehrmacht and put an end to the Third Reich and Lyon, the Capital of the Resistance, is crucial in achieving these objectives.