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Dozens of her victims were enemy snipers, targeted by a woman who earned the sobriquet Lady Death for her actions during the sieges of Sevastapol and Odessa. She was eventually wounded by a...
May 7, 2020 · As the world marks 75 years since surrender of Nazi Germany, these are the stories of women such as the spy princess, the White Mouse and Soviet sniper Lady Death.
They include Christine Granville, Sonia d’Artois (who was recruited by the SOE in 1943) and Elaine Madden (recruited in 1944). Their portraits were generously donated to the National Portrait Gallery recently, and join others in the Collection depicting fellow SOE agents Nancy Wake, Noor Inayat Khan and Violette Szabo.
Our records show the contributions of women to the Second World War from many points of view, ranging from glamorous propaganda, to secret files, to comical insights into human experience....
In early 1945, American war correspondent Lee Miller had already covered the war from so many angles: women’s work on the British home front; the Allied invasion of Western Europe; and the liberation of Paris. Her final reports from the European theater would feature some of the most iconic images from World War II.
Oct 13, 2023 · Phyllis Latour, the last of the 39 female secret agents who served in Sir Winston Churchill's "secret army" in France, has died aged 102. Now, previously classified official files paint a vivid...
Oct 2, 2020 · The new film A Call to Spy, produced, written by and starring Sarah Megan Thomas as Hall and directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher, takes inspiration from the heroic stories of these two spies who made...
