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Triumph and tragedy
BBC History Magazine
|June 2021
GILES MILTON applauds a masterful new account of the Special Operations Executive and the female agents who put their lives on the line to sabotage the Nazi war machine
Mission France: The True History of the Women of SOE by Kate Vigurs Yale, 328 pages, £20
There has been a flurry of books in recent years about the female agents of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), including multiple biographies of Noor Inayat Khan, Christine Granville (Krystyna Skarbek) and Virginia Hall. There have also been a number of general accounts of SOE women working undercover in Nazi-occupied France, with a focus on oft-repeated stories of high adventure and derring-do.
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