by jack | Sep 20, 2020 | Civil War, Espionage
A military field nurse, a Bible salesman, a black man named Cuff, an Irish soap peddler–these were just a few of the disguises adopted by Emma Edmonds, who fled an abusive father at age 15. Her father had wanted a son and resented her for not being a boy to help...
by jack | Aug 3, 2020 | Espionage, WWII
Forest Frederick Edward “Tommy” Yeo-Thomas was born in London, but moved with his family to France when he was very young. By 1914, at the outbreak of WWI, the family lived in Paris. At the age of 16, and unable to join either the British or French Army...
by jack | Jul 24, 2020 | Espionage, WWII
The plan was daring: Parachute in the middle of the night onto a snow-covered mountain, then ski cross country in subzero temperatures to blow up a remote power plant. When Germany invaded Norway in 1940, many members of the military fled to Britain. Some , like...
by jack | Jul 22, 2020 | Espionage, Uncategorized, WWII
Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek, also known as Christine Granville, was a Polish agent of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. She became a British agent even before formation of the SOE, and was its first, and longest-serving,...
by jack | Jun 16, 2020 | Espionage, WWII
Everyone knows “The French Chef” Julia Child, and most know of her secret past as a top secret researcher for the OSS. Too tall to enlist in the Women’s Army corps, she joined the OSS, and was quickly promoted from her position of clerk typist to...
by jack | Apr 28, 2020 | Espionage, WWII
Known as Die “Weisse Maus” (the “White Mouse”) by the Germans, Nancy Wake first worked in occupied France with the escape network, which assisted Allied airmen in evading capture and escaping to Spain. She herself had to escape, once the...
