The women who lived for danger

By Marcus Binney

Subjects: Biography, Women, Great Britain. Special Operations Executive, Women intelligence officers, World War, 1939-1945, Secret service, Great Britain

Description: In World War II, 37 women were dropped in occupied France to work as Special Operations Executive agents. This is the story of eight of these female agents, all from civilian life, who volunteered for a life of resistance work, undercover operations and a constant fear of discovery.