Clare Mulley – Agent Zo:

The Untold Story of Courageous WW2 Resistance Fighter Elżbieta Zawacka

Agent Zo, short-listed for The Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, tells the incredible story of the only woman to parachute from Britain to Nazi-occupied Poland, where she established a crucial intelligence network and couriered microfilm across wartime borders, playing a key role in the Warsaw Uprising and the liberation of her country. Imprisoned and silenced by the post-war Communist regime, Elżbieta Zawacka is brought back to life by historian Clare Mulley.

About the author

Clare Mulley is an award-winning author and historian. All her books are under option for TV and film, and widely translated. A regular contributor to TV (BBC’s Rise of the Nazis and Newsnight, Channel 5’s Secret History of WW2, and Adolf & Eva), radio (Radio 4 Today, Woman’s Hour, Great Lives, PM) and podcasts (Spectator, BBC History Extra, Dan Snow's History Hit), and popular public speaker, Clare also writes and reviews non-fiction for the Telegraph, Spectator and History Today.

“Deeply researched and written with verve... thoughtful as well as action packed.— The Times