"During the Second World War, Elżbieta Zawacka--the courageous resistance fighter known as Zo--was the only woman to cross almost a thousand miles of Nazi-occupied territory to reach Britain as an emissary of the Polish Home Army command. After completing her London missions, she became the only woman to parachute behind enemy lines in Poland, as the only female member of the Polish elite special forces, the Silent Unseen. There, while being hunted by the Gestapo--who arrested her entire family--she took a key role in the largest act of organized resistance during the war: the Warsaw Uprising. In 1945, Zo was discharged as one of the most highly decorated Polish women in history. Yet the Soviet-backed post-war Communist regime not only imprisoned her, but also ensured that her remarkable story remained hidden. Now, through new archival research and exclusive interviews with women who knew and fought alongside Zo, Clare Mulley brings this forgotten heroine ... back to life"-- Provided by publisher.
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