[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-Gydv3aYbg[/tube] I really enjoyed Agent Peggy Carter in the Captain America movie, and this one shot looks fantastic! Imagine, if you throw in some magic and dark creatures, it will definitely remind you of Isabella in The Tower's Alchemist. Yay, for female WWII spies :-) ... View Post
The Spy Who Loved
This is one of Amazon's best books for June--and it looks fantastic! The Spy Who Loved, by Clare Mulley, is the biographical account of the WWII female agent, Christine Granville. Book Description In June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessive colleague in a hotel in South Kensington. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died young is perhaps unsurprising, but that she had survived ... View Post
Women in Combat
Women Warriors. Has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? I thought the recent news story of the combat ban (for women) being lifted was intriguing. I have to admit, my initial reaction was a flurry of mixed feelings. On the one hand, you imagine the horrible, gritty, and even dehumanizing experiences people have to go through when engaged or subjected to battle, but on the other, women fighting ... View Post
Pearl Witherington
Pearl Witherington was one of the girls who got away. Born in France to British parents, Pearl fled with her family back to England when the Nazis invaded France. However she returned in 1943 under the service of SOE, parachuting into the country and joining with the local Maquis Resistance fighters. Using the codename "Marie" (and later "Pauline"), she did everything from engaging ... View Post
Violette Szabo
The life that I have Is all that I have And the life that I have Is yours. The love that I have Of the life that I have Is yours and yours and yours. A sleep I shall have A rest I shall have Yet death will be but a pause. For the peace of my years In the long green grass Will be yours and yours and yours. After only two years of marriage, 21 year-old Violette Szabo lost her ... View Post
Noor Inayat Khan
She was a princess--and a spy. The great-great granddaughter of Tipu Sultan (18th Century ruler of the Mysore Kingdom) respected her family's pacifist Sufi beliefs, but still felt she needed to do something to help the Resistance. She left the safety of England and joined with SOE's "Section F" in France to run wireless radio operations. Radio operations under these conditions were ... View Post