Agent Zo: The Untold Story of a Fearless World War II Resistance Fighter

"This is really an incredible story. Mulley has done an extraordinary service in bringing the story of Elzbieta Zawacka into new recognition. She was a resistance fighter during the Second World War. She came to London from Warsaw, where she was secretly trained in the British countryside. Then she joined the Polish elite special forces and was parachuted behind enemy lines into Nazi-occupied Poland, where she was hunted by the Gestapo and was part of the Warsaw Uprising and the liberation of Poland. You can’t quite believe that you don’t already know this story, or that it hasn’t been made into a film. Mulley’s extraordinary research has brought this historical figure back into the public eye. Often women’s stories have been overlooked in history, and women are now trying to reclaim these stories. I don’t think the prize is exclusively about unearthing untold female stories, although there are quite a lot of female stories that have not yet been told."