14th January, 2019 in Biography & Memoir, Military, Women in History
In September 1940 a beautiful young woman arrived by sea plane and rubber dinghy on the shores of Scotland accompanied by two men. It was to be yet another episode in the Germans’ attempt to penetrate British defences and infiltrate spies into the country. Of all the female spies…
22nd June, 2018 in Biography & Memoir, Military, Women in History
In his book Double Agent Victoire, David Tremain uses official and previously unpublished MI5 documents to explore the betrayal of France’s Interallié network and the woman who served three masters during the Second World War, but ultimately served herself. A cat is mercurial: sh…