Carve Her Name With Pride by R.J. Minney

The inspiring story of the half-French Violette Szabo, a World War II agent who was posthumously awarded The George Cross. After the death of her husband, she was recruited into the SOE and underwent secret agent training. Her first trip to France was completed successfully even though she was arrested and then released by the French Police. But in the first days after D-Day, she was captured and sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp where she was executed in January 1945.

Violette Szabo was one of Britain's bravest wartime spies but few know the full scale of facts surrounding her story. The release of this classic biography in ebook earlier this year allows us to get under the skin of "the real life Charlotte Gray" who fought off an SS division with machine gun spray and left behind a small daughter, Tania (who collected her mother's bravery awards after the war). A must-read tale.

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