SOE: everything you wanted to know

Mission France interweaves the stories of all thirty-nine female agents of the SOE's F Section, tracing their journeys from recruitment and training to their missions in occupied France, including evasion, capture, and survival. The book highlights the diversity of their experiences and abilities, from parachuting skills to mission duration, and places their work in the wider context of the war. It offers a balanced and nuanced account, avoiding hagiography, and recognizes both famous and lesser-known women who contributed to the Resistance, emphasizing their shared mission and the need for collective and individual recognition.

Mission Europe explores the remarkable and often overlooked stories of women recruited by Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) to conduct covert missions across occupied Europe during the Second World War. Unlike the well-known F Section agents in France, this book focuses on women who operated in countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Denmark, and Jewish agents recruited in Mandate Palestine for Eastern Europe missions. Kate Vigurs examines why women were recruited, their successes and failures, and celebrates the ordinary women who performed extraordinary acts of resistance, sabotage, and support for local resistance movements. The book is noted for its even-handed, compassionate, and clear storytelling without sentimentality or heroine worship.