Women secret agents in Nazi-occupied France

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🗓️ 18 June 2021

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Kate Vigurs discusses the 39 female agents of the Special Operation Executive’s F-section, a diverse cohort of women recruited to carry out resistance work in occupied France during the Second World War – from wireless operation to crucial planning for D-Day. (Ad) Kate Vigurs is the author of Mission France: The True History of the Women of SOE (Yale, 2021). Buy it now at Bookshop.org: https://go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&xcust=historyextra-social-hexpod&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fuk.bookshop.org%2Fbooks%2Fmission-france-the-true-history-of-the-women-of-soe%2F9780300208573 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:06.3	Music Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.
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1:34.2	Formed in 1940, Britain's Special Operations Executive, or S.O.E.
1:39.4	was given a mission to covertly coordinate resistance work overseas.
1:46.7	The organisation's operation in France,
1:54.3	or F-section, sent more than 400 agents into Nazi occupied territory, 39 of which were women.
2:03.0	In her new book, Mission France, The True History of the Women of SOUE,ian Kate Vigers interweaves the story of these 39 female agents. And on today's podcast, she discusses some of their experiences.
2:09.5	Putting the questions to Kate was our acting digital editor, Eleanor Evans. How did women first come to be
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