![]() ![]() The reader learns about their lives and follows them through their last few hours. The tragic story of Andrée Borrel, Diana Rowden, Vera Leigh and Sonia Olschanezky of the Special Operations Executive who were executed at Natzweiler concentration camp in July 1944. Support The Big Issue and our vendors by signing up for a subscription. Lockdowns have taken income away from hundreds of Big Issue sellers. ![]() Here, for International Women’s Day, she gives us her top 5 books on women in wartime. In her new book, Mission France: The True History of the Women of SOE, Dr Vigurs interweaves the stories of all thirty-nine female agents for the first time, tracing their journeys from early recruitment to work undertaken in the field. While some are widely known, others have had their stories largely overlooked. More than four hundred agents were sent to France, including thirty-nine women. For her PhD, Historian Dr Kate Vigurs studied the women agents of the Special Operations Executive, a secret British organisation formed to coordinate resistance work overseas during World War 2. ![]()
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