Agent Zo – New Book by Clare Mulley

Congratulations to Clare Mulley on the publication of her newest book, Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka, just released today in the U.K.! It can be found online at Amazon.co.uk and at Bookshop.org, or through your favorite bookstore.

It’ll be available in the U.S. on December 3rd, and can be pre-ordered now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or your favorite bookstore.

This is the incredible story of Elżbieta Zawacka — the World War II female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo — told here for the very first time. Agent Zo was the only female emissary of the Polish Home Army command to reach London from Warsaw during the war. In Britain, she became the only woman to join the elite Polish Special Forces, the Cichociemni  (aka the Unseen & Silent), affiliated with British Special Operations Executive (SOE).

She was secretly trained in the British countryside, and then became the only female member of the Cichociemni to be parachuted behind enemy lines to German-occupied Poland. There, whilst being hunted by the Gestapo who arrested her entire family, she took a leading role in the Warsaw Uprising and the liberation of Poland.

After the war Agent Zo was demobbed as one of the most highly decorated women in Polish history. Yet the Soviet-backed postwar Communist regime not only imprisoned her, but also ensured that her remarkable story remained hidden for over forty years. Now, through new archival research and exclusive interviews with people who knew and fought alongside Zo, Clare Mulley brings this forgotten heroine back to life, and also transforms how we see the history of women’s agency in the Second World War.

We are happy that we were able to contribute a little to Clare’s research on Zo!

Clare also wrote The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville — Polish-born Countess Krystyna Skarbek aka Christine Granville, who was Britain’s first, and longest-serving, female special agent of World War II.