Agent Zo - The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka (ebok) av Clare Mulley
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'Deeply researched and written with verve... thoughtful as well as action packed' The Times'Gripping, moving and important' Simon Sebag Montefiore'Agent Zo is a triumph. Absolutely essential reading' Hallie RubenholdThis is the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the WW2 female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo, told here for the very first time. 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 B…

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Undertittel The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka
Forfattere Clare Mulley (forfatter)
Utgitt 16 mai 2024
Sjanger Dokumentar og fakta, Historie
Språk English
Format epub
DRM-beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9781399601092

'Deeply researched and written with verve... thoughtful as well as action packed' The Times

'Gripping, moving and important' Simon Sebag Montefiore

'Agent Zo is a triumph. Absolutely essential reading' Hallie Rubenhold

This is the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the WW2 female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo, told here for the very first time. 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 SOE affiliated forces to be parachuted back behind enemy lines to Nazi-occupied Poland. There, whilst being hunted by the Gestapo who arrested her entire family, she took a leading role in the Warsaw Uprising and the liberation of Poland.

After the war she was demobbed as one of the most highly decorated women in Polish history. Yet the Soviet-backed post-war Communist regime not only imprisoned her, but also ensured that her remarkable story remained hidden for over forty years. Now, through new archival research and exclusive interviews with people who knew and fought alongside Zo, Clare Mulley brings this forgotten heroine back to life, and also transforms how we see the history of women's agency in the Second World War.