Award-winning historian Clare Mulley uncovers the astonishing life of Elżbieta Zawack - ‘Zo’ - in her new book, Agent Zo. The only female member of the Polish elite special forces, the ‘Silent Unseen,’ Zo was also the only woman to parachute from Britain into Nazi-occupied Poland. After the war, she was demobbed as one of the most highly decorated Polish women in history. But the Soviet-backed regime imprisoned her and buried her remarkable story for decades. Drawing on new archival research and exclusive interviews with those who knew and fought alongside Zo, Mulley restores this forgotten heroine to the historical record and redefines how we view women’s contribution to the Second World War
