Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War IIArcade Publishing, 2007 - 354 halaman She was beautiful. She was ruthless. Recruited at the age of twenty-three by legendary spymaster William Stephenson - code name: Intrepid - Vera Atkins undertook countless perilous missions in the 1930s. Her fierce intellect, personal courage, and facility with languages quickly propelled her to the leadership echelon of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a covert intelligence agency formed by Winston Churchill. During World War II, she became Great Britain's spymistress. Her agents penetrated deep behind enemy lines, aided resistance fighters, destroyed vital targets, helped Allied pilots evade capture, and radioed information back to London. They were prepared to die to liberate Europe from the Nazis. Vera Atkins was demobilized in 1947. Author William Stevenson was the only person she trusted to record her life - as he had done for her one-time recruiter, Intrepid - with one condition: He would not publish her biography until after her death. Here is her incredible story. Book jacket. |
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Maxs Daughter | 1 |
Mutual Friends vs Guilty Men | 15 |
Kill Hitler? | 23 |
Return to Berlin | 34 |
Where Lies the Treachery? | 38 |
England Cut Off | 51 |
Connections | 59 |
Spattering Brains with a Knobkerrie | 68 |
She Has to Believe in What She Is Doing or Go Mad | 175 |
The Flying Visit | 183 |
Shattering Lavals Shield of France | 192 |
We Are in the Presence of a Crime Without a Name | 199 |
Thin Red Line | 210 |
Fully Occupied | 219 |
Bluff and Counterbluff | 229 |
The White Rabbit Hops into the Governors Den | 237 |
11 | 69 |
Poland Breaks the First Enigma | 76 |
Betrayals All Around | 82 |
Veras First Mission in an Open War | 87 |
Keep Buggering On | 99 |
The Gestapo | 105 |
The Phony War Ends | 110 |
A Gigantic Guerrilla | 117 |
The Lips of a Strange Woman | 124 |
Sabotage Etcetera Etcetera | 129 |
A Year Alone | 135 |
A Civil War Ends a Nightmare Begins | 145 |
Specially Employed and Not Paid from Army Funds | 152 |
She Could Do Anything with Dynamite Except Eat It | 161 |
The Black Chamber | 169 |
An Unplanned and Gigantic Spyglass | 244 |
Rolande | 255 |
Tangled Webs | 260 |
Deadly Mind and Wireless Games | 267 |
The Life That I Have Is Yours | 272 |
My Uncle Is Lord Vansittart | 287 |
But If the Cause Be Not Good | 293 |
If These Do Not Die Well It Will Be a Black Matter | 297 |
A Terrible Irony | 305 |
Unsolved Mysteries | 312 |
The American Connection | 317 |
Notes | 323 |
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