Schooled at Charterhouse, and a graduate of the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, Robertson spent only two years with the Seaforth Highlanders before resigning his commission, followed by spells in the City and police work in Birmingham. In 1933 he transferred to the Security Service, still ag...
Their task under the Schlieffen Plan was to defeat the opposing French armies as swiftly as possible, before turning east to conquer Russia. On August 3rd the Kaiser declared war on France, and on the following morning advance elements of his army crossed the border into neutral Belgium, thereaft...