From an award-winning journalist comes this real-life cloak-and-dagger tale of Vera Atkins, one of Britain s premiere secret agents during World War II. As the head of the French Section of the British Special Operations Executive, Vera Atkins recruited, trained, and mentored special operatives whose job was to organize and arm the resistance in Nazi-occupied France. After the war, Atkins courageously committed herself to a dangerous search for twelve of her most cherished women spies who had gone missing in action. Drawing on previously unavailable sources, Sarah Helm chronicles Atkins...
From an award-winning journalist comes this real-life cloak-and-dagger tale of Vera Atkins, one of Britain s premiere secret agents during World Wa...
In the weeks leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the pressure on the UK government to commit to joining the American cause was escalating. And in one household the pressure had completely erased the line between the political and the personal - the home Tony Blair's Chief of Staff.
In the weeks leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the pressure on the UK government to commit to joining the American cause was escalating. And...
Months before the outbreak of World War II, Heinrich Himmler prime architect of the Holocaust designed a special concentration camp for women, located fifty miles north of Berlin.Only a small number of the prisoners were Jewish.Ravensbruck was primarily a place for the Nazis to hold other inferior beings: Jehovah s Witnesses, Resistance fighters, lesbians, prostitutes, and aristocrats even the sister of New York s Mayor LaGuardia. Over six years the prisoners endured forced labor, torture, starvation, and random execution. In the final months of the war, Ravensbruck became an extermination...
Months before the outbreak of World War II, Heinrich Himmler prime architect of the Holocaust designed a special concentration camp for women, located...
