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  1. A Life In Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE. Paperback – 1 Jun. 2006. During World War Two the Special Operation Executive's French Section sent more than 400 agents into Occupied France -- at least 100 never returned and were reported 'Missing Believed Dead' after the war.

  2. Sep 14, 2005 · Once rumored to have been the inspiration for Ian Flemings Miss Moneypenny, Vera Atkins climbed her way to the top in the Special Operations Executive, or Britain’s secret service created to help build up, organize, and arm the resistance in the Nazi-occupied countries.

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  3. Dec 4, 2007 · 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’s extraordinary life and her singular journey through the chaos of post-war Europe.

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  4. Jun 1, 2006 · In A LIFE IN SECRETS Sarah Helm has stripped away Vera's many veils and -- with unprecedented access to official and private papers, and the cooperation of Vera's relatives -- vividly reconstructed an extraordinary life.

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  5. Jan 9, 2006 · Sarah Helm's absorbing and fascinating book provides not only an account of Vera Atkins' career during and immediately after the Second World War but also the most balanced assessment so far of the extraordinary mixture of bravery, incompetence and betrayal which characterized SOE's brief history.

  6. 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 ...

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