Agent Zo

Clare Mulley

This is the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the WW2 female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo. Agent Zo was the only woman to reach London from Warsaw during the Second World War as an emissary of the Polish Home Army command, and then in Britain she became the only woman to join the Polish elite Special Forces, known as the 'Silent Unseen'. After the war she was demobbed as one of the most highly decorated women in Polish history. Yet the Soviet-backed post-war 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.

Author(s): Mulley, Clare
Binding: Paperback
Date of Publication: 20/03/2025
Pagination: 416 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published By: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Book Classification: Military history|Espionage & secret services|European history
Dimensions: 196x130x36
Weight: 320
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781399601085