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    Mar 18, 2021 2 minutes

    Mission France: The True History of the Women of SOE

    By Kate Vigurs

    Yale University Press, £20, hardback, 352 pages

    The World War II exploits of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) – a secret organisation tasked with espionage, sabotage and aiding the resistance in occupied Europe – continue to fascinate, more than 70 years on. This

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