Clare Mulley

Gebundenes Buch

Agent Zo

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025

Beschreibung

The first book to tell the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, a WW2 Polish resistance fighter who was secretly trained by the special forces in the British countryside and then became the only woman to be parachuted back behind enemy lines, where she played a vital role in the liberation of Poland

Autor

Clare Mulley is an award-winning author and historian. All her books are under option for TV and film, and widely translated. A regular contributor to TV (BBC's Rise of the Nazis and Newsnight, Channel 5's Secret History of WW2, and Adolf & Eva), radio (Radio 4 Today, Woman's Hour, Great Lives, PM) and podcasts (Spectator, BBC History Extra, Dan Snow's History Hit etc), and popular public speaker, Clare also writes and reviews non-fiction for the Telegraph, Spectator and History Today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion Publishing Co
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 164mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 692g
• ISBN-13: 9781399601061
• ISBN-10: 1399601067
• Artikelnr.: 70165283

Rezensionen

Gripping, moving and important: an amazing and until-now neglected story of female WW2 heroism and secret derring-do. This tale of the resistance fighter Agent Zo is amazingly told and deeply researched by the excellent historian of WW2 espionage Clare Mulley. Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of the World: A Family History