Description

From an award-winning reporter comes this true-life cloak-and-dagger story of Vera Atkins, among Britain’s initial solution agencies during World-War II.As the top of the French Portion of the British Special Operations Executive, Vera Atkins employed, trained, and mentored special operatives whose work was to arrange and supply the opposition in Nazi-occupied France. Following the battle, Atkins courageously dedicated himself into a risky look for twelve of her most valued ladies agents who'd gone missing doing his thing. Drawing on previously unavailable sources, Sarah Helm chronicles Atkins’s remarkable existence and her single trip through the turmoil of post war Europe. Filled with heroics, interest, recognition, and the disasters of battle, A Life in Strategies may be the tale of a tour-de force of investigative journalism and the great, evasive lady.