Carve Her Name With Pride
Posted on Thursday 21st June 2012









"They're Germans," said Violette, "You can just see one of their caps."
The boy leapt out of the back of the car and ran into the nearest field. Anastasie got out too, Tommy gun in hand, and flung himself into a shallow ditch at the side of the road. Violette had to squeeze herself past the steering-wheel of the car. Seizing her Sten gun, she crossed the road to a tree. "Run," she called to the boy, but he was already scurrying fast across the fields.
Instantly the Germans began to shoot from the further side of the hedge. Violette turned her gun on them and blazed away too.'

Further Reading
Carve Her Name With Pride
(Paperback - 187 pages)
ISBN: 9781848847422
by R J Minney
Only £12.99
Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring story of the half-French Violette Szabo who was born in Paris Iin 1921 to an English motor-car dealer, and a French Mother. She met and married Etienne Szabo, a Captain in the French Foreign Legion in 1940. Shortly after the birth of her daughter, Tania, her husband died at El Alamein. She became a FANY (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry) and was recruited into the SOE and underwent secret agent training. Her first trip to France was completed successfully even though she was…
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Further Reading
Women Wartime Spies
(Hardback - 224 pages)
ISBN: 9781844680580
by Ann Kramer
Only £19.99
From Mata Hari through to Noor Inayat Khan, women spies have rarely received the recognition they deserve. They have often been trivialised and, in cinema and popular fiction, stereotyped as vamps or dupes. The reality is very different. As spies, women have played a critical role during wartime, receiving and passing on vital information, frequently at considerable risk. Often able to blend into their background more easily than their male counterparts, women have worked as couriers, transmitters and with resistance fighters, their achievements often unknown. Many have died.
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