Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka
by Clare Mulley 
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The incredible and inspiring story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the World War II female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo. During World War II, Elzbieta Zawacka-the WW2 female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo-was the only woman to reach London as an emissary of the Polish Home Army command. In Britain, she became the only woman to join the Polish elite Special Forces, known as the "Silent Unseen." She was secretly trained in the British countryside, and then she was the only female member of show more these forces to be parachuted back behind enemy lines to Nazi-occupied Poland. There, while being hunted by the Gestapo (who arrested her entire family), she took a leading role in the Warsaw Uprising and the liberation of Poland. After the war, she was discharged as one of the most highly decorated women in Polish history. Yet the Soviet-backed post-war Communist regime not only imprisoned (and tortured) her, but also ensured that her remarkable story remained hidden for over forty years. Now, through new archival research and exclusive interviews with people who knew and fought alongside Agent Zo, Clare Mulley brings this forgotten heroine back to brilliant life-while transforming how we value the history of women resistance fighters during World War II. show lessTags
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Agent Zo uncovers the overlooked history of one determined, courageous woman and her fight against Nazi occupation. Through a well-researched, sweeping account Mulley draws readers into Zo’s everyday reality of covert operations, Polish Resistance politics, unexpected setbacks, and great personal risk to herself, friends, family, and Polish patriots...and her struggle to preserve their memory under a Communist regime.
A thoroughly captivating biography in its intensity and scope.
A thoroughly captivating biography in its intensity and scope.
The story of WW2 Polish Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka, Zo. The first woman to be parachuted into Poland from a British plane.
Her determination not only to work for her country in these dangerous times, but to see that the war work of women was recognised and valued, the latter took longer than the former, and continued on into her old age. A valuable seat edge volume, about many women who risked their lives on a daily basis.
Her determination not only to work for her country in these dangerous times, but to see that the war work of women was recognised and valued, the latter took longer than the former, and continued on into her old age. A valuable seat edge volume, about many women who risked their lives on a daily basis.
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- Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka
- Alternate titles
- Agent Zo: The Untold Story of a Fearless World War II Resistance Fighter; Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Courageous WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka
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- World War II
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- History, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
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- 940.5486438092 — History & geography History of Europe History of Europe 1918- Military history of World War II Other Topics Unconventional warfare of Allies Europe Germany & Central Europe Poland
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- D810 .S7 .M75 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania History (General) World War II (1939-1945)
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