A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII.
by Sarah Helm
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages528 pages
ISBN
9780385508452
Published
2005
Description
Once rumored to have been the inspiration for Ian Fleming's miss moneypenny, vera atkins climbed her way to the top in the special operations executive, or Soe: Britain's secret service created to help build up, organize...Once rumored to have been the inspiration for Ian Fleming's miss moneypenny, vera atkins climbed her way to the top in the special operations executive, or Soe: Britain's secret service created to help build up, organize, and arm the resistance in the nazi-occupied countries. Throughout the war, atkins recruited, trained, and mentored the agents for The Soe's French section, which sent more than four hundred young men and women into occupied France, at least one hundred of whom never returned and were reported mpd (missing presumed dead) after the war.