Agent Zo was the only female Polish resistance agent to reach London as a courier during WWII and the only female member of Poland's fabled 'Silent Unseen' paratroopers. Yet despite having researched Poland's wartime resistance movement, many of us have never heard of her. Why?

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Agent Zo: The Extraordinary Woman Who Parachuted Into Nazi-Occupied Poland

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