Clare Mulley

Clare Mulley is an award-winning author focused on female experience during the Second World War. Her books include AGENT ZO, about the only woman to parachute from Britain to enemy-occupied Poland, to play a key role in the largest organised act of defiance against Nazi German occupation, as well as THE WOMEN WHO FLEW FOR HITLER, THE SPY WHO LOVED and THE WOMAN WHO SAVED THE CHILDREN. Popular on TV, radio and pods, Clare reviews widely across the papers, and has served as a judge for the Historical Writers Association and Biographers Club book prizes. She is a recipient of the Polish honour, the Bene Merito, and the Daily Mail Biographers Club Prize. She lives in Essex with the sculptor Ian Wolter, too many books, and a dog who needs more baths. www.claremulley.com

Agent ‘Zo' aka Elżbieta Zawacka, was the only woman to parachute from Britain to Nazi-German occupied Poland during the Second World War. As the sole female member of the Polish special forces, the ‘Silent Unseen’, being secretly trained in British country houses, this didn’t faze her. Zo had already spent three years in the resistance, serving behind enemy lines across Europe, while being hunted by the Gestapo, before escaping through Gibraltar. She would go on to serve in the largest organised act of defiance against Nazi Germany - the Warsaw Uprising. After the war Zo 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, transforming the way we see women's agency in the Second World War.