Clare Mulley is an award-winning author focused on female experience during the Second World War.

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Her previous books include The Women who Flew for Hitler, The Spy who Loved and The Woman who Saved the Children.

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She is a regular contributor to TV (including the BBC’s Rise of the Nazis and Channel 5’s Secret History of WW2), radio (Radio 4’s History’s Secret Heroes) and many podcasts. She is a recipient of the Polish cultural honour, the Bene Merito, and the Daily Mail Biographer’s Club Prize.

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Agent Zo: the untold story of a Polish Freedom Fighter

Agent ‘Zo' aka Elżbieta Zawacka and Elizabeth Watson, was the only woman to parachute from Britain to Nazi-occupied Poland during the Second World War and she would go on to serve in the largest organised act of defiance against Nazi Germany - the Warsaw Uprising. After the war Zo was demobbed as one of the most highly decorated women in Polish history. Yet the Soviet-backed post-war Communist regime not only imprisoned her, but also ensured that her remarkable story remained hidden for over forty years. Now, through new archival research and exclusive interviews with people who knew and fought alongside Zo, Clare Mulley brings this forgotten heroine back to life, transforming the way we see women's agency in the Second World War.