Mission France - The true History of the women of Special Operations Executive

Hear the story of 39 women who were chosen to work in a secretive, clandestine and mainly male domain, Special Operations Executive, French section. Ranging from housewives to mothers, shop assistants to countesses, they were taught: silent killing, instinctive shooting and sabotage as well as survival tactics for life in Nazi Occupied France.

Infiltrated behind enemy lines to work as couriers and wireless operators, operating undercover and beyond the protection of the Geneva Convention.

Life expectancy was short, sometimes a mere six weeks but these women worked and fought hard – often living in solitude with no friends or company; travelling hundreds of kilometers carrying vital yet incriminating information; receiving arms or vital supplies and risking everything to make contact with SOE HQ over the radio waves.

Bio - Dr. Kate Vigurs is a freelance historian, academic advisor, and researcher. She makes regular appearances on television and radio. Kate is the author of Mission France: The True History of the Women of the SOE, telling the story of the thirty-nine female SOE agents who when ordered by Churchill to ‘set Europe ablaze’ went undercover in France, to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance.

 

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