
British spies in WW2: everything you wanted to know
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Women in Espionage
Young women, some of them as young as 16 who are working on the escape lines behind enemy lines. Young women like Misha who lasted until just before D-Day, was smuggling intelligence out and her life was at risk. The MI9 knew that the cassapo were after her. They smuggled her out safely over the Pyrenees into England. And so for me that's the inspiration. These women that are doing ordinary acts, but making an extraordinary difference.
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