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Clare Mulley

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Clare Mulley is the award-wining author of four books:
- 'Agent Zo' (W&N, 2024) about the only woman to parachute from Britain to Nazi German-occupied Poland. Elżbieta Zawacka was the only female member of Poland's elite special forces. Shortlisted for the Women's Prize. Winner, Polish Foreign Ministry History Book Prize 2025.
- 'The Women Who Flew for Hitler' (Macmillan, 2017) explores the lives of Nazi Germany's only female test pilots, Hanna Reitsch & Melitta von Stauffenberg. Longlisted for the HWA prize.
- 'The Spy Who Loved', (Macmillan, 2012) looks at the secrets & lives of Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, the first woman to work for Britain as a special agent during the 2WW. Under option.
- 'The Woman Who Saved the Children',
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The Spy Who Loved: The Secr...

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Agent Zo by Clare Mulley
"HASSL 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐛 𝐐&𝐀𝐬:
1. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘭, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘭𝘻𝘣𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘢 𝘡𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘢'𝘴 (𝘈𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘡𝘰'𝘴) 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨?
I LOVED Agent Zo, and thought Mulley did an excellent job of drawing out Elzbi" Read more of this review »
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"It shouldn’t be unique to have a true story about female WW2 warriors, but it is. And yet women make up half of the world’s population. What a great story and great testament to an extraordinary human!"
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"This book was thoroughly researched and parts of it were exciting. Parts a bit dry, but it was a very good narration of the suffering of the Polish people at the hands of the Germans, then the Soviets. Zo was incredibly brave and focused on her missi" Read more of this review »
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This is a fabulous book, inspiring, at times haunting beneath the waves, but also a great breath of fresh air. Read it, and change the way you think about our oceans and the life within them.
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“Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to give her life at any moment for a worthy cause, but rarely sparing a thought for the many casualties that fell in her wake.”
Clare Mulley, The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville

“For a once renowned woman who loved telling tales of dodging bullets, wielding grenades and subverting dogs trained to kill, Christine's story is, surprisingly, little known today.”
Clare Mulley, The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville

“She could do anything with dynamite, except eat it.”
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“But most of these women -- the famous and the obscure -- had one thing in common: they did not think of themselves as heroes. They followed their consciences, saw something that needed to be done, and they did it. And all of them helped win a war, even though many of them paid the ultimate price for their contribution. But their sacrifice was not in vain, especially if their courage continues to inspire others to fight injustice and evil wherever they find it.
--From Women Heroes of WWII
Kathryn J. Atwood

“May be you find out I could be useful getting people out of camps and prisons in Germany - just before they got shot. I should love to do it and I like to jump out of a plane even every day.”
Christine Granville

“Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to give her life at any moment for a worthy cause, but rarely sparing a thought for the many casualties that fell in her wake.”
Clare Mulley, The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville

“For a once renowned woman who loved telling tales of dodging bullets, wielding grenades and subverting dogs trained to kill, Christine's story is, surprisingly, little known today.”
Clare Mulley, The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville

“When he came he first covered me with his revolver', Christine write in her official report, but it was not long before Waem put the gun down on the table between them.”
Clare Mulley, The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville

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