num_pages: 411
description: Female spies are often the stuff of legend and myth. Here for the first time Beryl Escott tells the true story of the incredible 40 women who worked for Britain's Special Operations Executive during the Second World War. These women came from a variety of backgrounds from Gillian Gerson a Chilean actress to the Irish Mary Herbert recruited for her linguistic skills through to the famous Odette Samsonthe darling spy. She explores what made them risk their lives even those with new-born babies for a cause greater than themselves. She takes us on a journey through their recruitment and training into their undercover operations as they diced with death and details their often tragic demise from death by injection to being shot in a prisoner of war camps. This is a far from glamorous picture but a moving and gripping story that needs to be told.
language: English
title: The Heroines of SOE: Britain's Secret Women in France
publisher: The History Press