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Sabotage: The Women of the Special Operations Executive
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:24:41
Publish Date: 2021-05-21 02:00:00
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With the role of coordinating resistance overseas, the task of a member of the Special Operations Executive could be extremely influential, but also perilous. Kate Vigurs has been investigating the lives of the 39 female members of the Special Operations Executive for her book Mission France: The True History of the Women of SOE. In this episode, she tells James how women came to be recruited for this work, how their abilities and missions varied, and what dangers they faced.


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