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Women of SOE: A History of their Secret Missions in Wartime Europe, by Kate Vigurs

A long-overdue history that broadens the stories of female agents who served across the occupied continent during the Second World War, highlighting extraordinary courage and sacrifice.

Helen Fry

Women of SOE from the historical research and pen of Kate Vigurs’ is a meticulous history of the women who served with the Special Operations Executive (SOE) across occupied Europe during the Second World War. Building on the success of her earlier book, Mission...

The Woman Who Built Denmark’s SOE Wireless Network

The story of Edith Bonnesen, the Danish resistance operative who repeatedly escaped danger during the Nazi occupation, is told in English for the first time.

Kate Vigurs

Within the pages of Women of SOE, there are many incredible stories reflecting every human trait from heroism to cowardice, bravery to fear, love to betrayal, loyalty to selfishness. The book's aim is to show these women (and the men they worked with) as human beings,...

The Women of SOE

Kate Vigurs explores the role of women in the Special Operations Executive, French Section.

Kate Vigurs

During World War Two, 39 women were specially selected to work in a secretive, clandestine and mainly male domain: the Special Operations Executive, French Section (SOE F). Ranging from housewives and mothers to shop assistants and countesses, these women were put...