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Short film about Vera Atkins, Intelligence Officer with Special Operations Executive, during World War II. She was involved deeply in the secret work of inserting secret agents into Occupied France, and was particularly responsible for the welfare of the female agents - her 'girls'. Using original sound recordings of an interview with Vera ...
Review—Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins: The Greatest Female Agent in World War II Reviewed by Thomas F. Troy William Stevenson (New York: Arcade Publishing, 2007), 354 pages.
When Vera Atkins died in 2000, her family made all of her papers available to Sarah Helm, an investigative journalist who in 2005 produced an exhaustively researched biography which also benefited from the release of hitherto classified documents. It left little for scholars to discover although much for them to discuss.
31 de ene. de 2022 · Vera Atkins grew up on the estate owned by her wealthy parents. While there, Vera got to know several diplomats who were members of British Intelligence, some of whom were later to support her application for British nationality, and to whom in view of her and her family's strong pro-British views, she may have provided information as a "stringer"--a reporter who works for a publication or ...
From an award-winning journalist comes this real-life cloak-and-dagger tale of Vera Atkins, one of Britain’s premiere secret agents during World War II. As the head of the French Section of the British Special Operations Executive, Vera Atkins recruited, trained, and mentored special operatives whose job was to organize and arm the resistance in Nazi-occupied France.
3 de oct. de 2020 · They are three women - Vera Atkins, a Jewish refugee who had become a famed spymaster, Virginia Hall, an American who walks on a wooden leg, and Noor Inayat Khan, the daughter of a prominent ...
4 de ago. de 2022 · Vera Atkins. nee’ Rosenberg. “Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Croix de Guerre, Legion of Honour. (Star of David) A Jewish pre-War British spy, Vera joined Special Operations Executive (SOE) as an Intelligence Squadron Officer, F Section, overseeing the missions of secret agents to France. She lived at 725 Nell Gwynn House in WW2,
