- EAN13
- 9781399601092
- Éditeur
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Date de publication
- 16/05/2024
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
Agent Zo
The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka
Clare Mulley
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Aide EAN13 : 9781399601092
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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 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.
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.
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