A National Bestseller
In 1942 the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was on the front lines. To a��set Europe ablaze,a�\x9d in the words of Winston Churchill, the Special Operations Executive had to do something unprecedented: recruit women as spies. Thirty-nine answered the call, leaving their lives and families to become saboteurs in France. They destroyed train lines, ambushed Nazis, plotted prison breaks, and gathered crucial intelligence a�" laying the groundwork for the D-Day invasion that proved to be the turning point in the war.