

The Women of the SOE
"Set Europe ablaze," Winston Churchill instructed them. They were the women of the Special Operations Executive. The Special Operations...


It's Not All Glamor in Espionage
Nancy Wake is credited with saving the lives of thousands of downed Allied pilots and refugees during the German Occupation. When France...


The Key to Her Code
After the German Gestapo caught on to Nancy in France, she fled to England. There she trained as an agent in the British Operations...


A Spy in Her Spare Time
Nancy Wake, to me, is particularly inspiring because she exploited the Germans' assumptions about her. They assumed she wasn't a threat...


Most Decorated Servicewomen
This site is dedicated to WWII's most decorated servicewoman: Nancy Wake. She was a courier, saboteur and spy. She led downed Allied...


The White Mouse
Elusive, fleeting, vanishing. They called her “la souris blanche:" the White Mouse. Nancy Wake was living in Marseilles when Germany...