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This is the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the WW2 female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo. Agent Zo was the only woman to reach London from Warsaw during the Second World War as an emissary of the Polish Home Army command, and then in Britain she became the only woman to join the Polish elite Special Forces, known as the 'Silent Unseen'. She was secretly trained in the British countryside, and then the only female member of these S...

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Eglantyne Jebb was the founder of Save the Children, famously attesting to not caring much for children at a personal level. Her life is revealed to have been defined by intermingled humour and tragedy in this insightful biography revealing something of the development of charity in our contemporary understanding of it.

A "Daily Mail" Biographers' Club Prize-winner for "The Woman Who Saved the Children" delivers a dual biography of Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg, Nazi Germany's most highly decorated women pilots in the male-dominated field of flight in the 1930s.

A "Daily Mail" Biographers' Club Prize-winner for "The Woman Who Saved the Children" delivers a dual biography of Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg, Nazi Germany's most highly decorated women pilots in the male-dominated field of flight in the 1930s.

In June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessive colleague in a hotel in South Kensington. Her name was Christine Granville, aka Krystyna Skarbek - Britain's first special agent of WWI. Having fled Poland on the outbreak of war, she was recruited by the intelligence services long before the establishment of the SOE, and took on an impressive amount of missions which was reflected in the fact that she was awarded the George Medal, the OBE and...

The extraordinary untold story of one of WWII's most daring female spies

The Untold Story of Britain's First Female Special Agent of World War IIIn June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessed colleague in a hotel in the South Kensington district of London. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died young was perhaps unsurprising, that she had survived the Second World War was remarkable.The daughter of a feckless Polish aristocrat and his wealthy Jewish wife, Granville would become one of Britain's most dar...

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