MISSION FRANCE (PB)

Formed in 1940, Special Operations Executive was to coordinate Resistance work overseas. The organization’s F section sent more than four hundred agents into France, thirty-nine of whom were women. For the first time, the stories of all thirty-nine female agents are brought together. By placing the women in the context of their work with the SOE and the wider war, this history reveals the true extent of the differences in their abilities and attitudes while underlining how they shared a common mission and deserve wider recognition.