My history hero: Christopher Clayton Hutton (1893–1965)

Chosen by Dennis Wheatley, BBC History Magazine reader

Christopher Clayton Hutton smuggled everything from currency to forged ID discs into German PoW camps. (Public domain)

January 19, 2011 at 4:44 pm

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