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4 de dic. de 2007 · Paperback – December 4, 2007. by Sarah Helm (Author) 1,189. See all formats and editions. 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 ...
9 de ene. de 2006 · Vera Atkins may have covered up her own past and tried to do the same for some of SOE's failures. But she ensured that a small band of exceptionally brave women were not forgotten. For that she deserves a biography as good as this. Sir Paul Lever Chairman of RUSI; Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee (1994-1996)
that Vera Atkins was approached. to join the Special Operations Executive, or SOE. The approach came in a letter. It was as bland as any letter could ever be, but this letter would define the rest of Vera's life. And it soon became clear. that Vera would be a great asset to SOE. As her internal report noted, she had a fantastically good memory,
10 de dic. de 2008 · Vera Atkins (1908–2000) was the highest-ranking female official in the French section of a WWII British intelligence unit that aided the resistance. Atkins sent 400 agents into France, including 39 women she'd personally recruited and supervised. Many were caught by the Gestapo and subsequently disappeared and presumed dead.
Vera Atkins, who never married, covered her life in mystery so that even her closest family knew almost nothing of her past. In A LIFE IN SECRETS Sarah Helm has stripped away Vera's many veils and -- with unprecedented access to official and private papers, and the cooperation of Vera's relatives -- vividly reconstructed an extraordinary life.
Vera Atkins, a covert operations officer, got the sole role, in fact the starring role, in the grand encounter. She took him over. He was so "impressed" by what she told him, about covert operations and code-breaking, that he personally gave FDR "his strong Impression of her" and
9 de ene. de 2020 · Vera Atkins was born Vera Maria Rosenberg in Galați, Romania, to Max Rosenberg, a German-Jewish father, and his British-Jewish wife, Zeffro Hilda, known as Hilda. She briefly attended the Sorbonne in Paris to study modern languages and a finishing school at Lausanne, where she indulged her passion for skiing, before training at a secretarial college in London.
