Agent Zo: The Untold Story of a Fearless World War II Resistance Fighter

“This is really an incredible story. Elżbieta Zawacka was a resistance fighter during the Second World War. She came to London from Warsaw, where she was secretly trained in the British countryside. Then she joined the Polish elite special forces and was parachuted behind enemy lines into Nazi-occupied Poland, where she was hunted by the Gestapo and was part of the Warsaw Uprising and the liberation of Poland. You can’t quite believe that you don’t already know this story, or that it hasn’t been made into a film. Mulley’s extraordinary research has brought this historical figure back into the public eye.” Read more...

The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction

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