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WOMEN, SPIES AND SECRETS

In her new book Mission Europe, award-winning historian Kate Vigurs tells the extraordinary untold stories of the women agents who served with Britain’s Special Operations Executive. While SOE’s exploits in France are well known, she uncovers the lives of lesser-known operatives, from locally recruited women in Belgium, Poland, Denmark and the Netherlands to Jewish agents from Mandate Palestine sent into Eastern Europe. Drawing on gripping accounts of bravery, sacrifice and survival, she discusses why women were recruited, celebrates their successes, and reveals how these ordinary women ‘set Europe ablaze’.