Caroline Moorehead

The forgotten world of female espionage

Many thousands of women acted as messengers, radio operators and double agents behind enemy lines in both world wars. Here, these resilient and resolute pioneers are retrieved from the mists of history

Eileen Nearne, a member of SOE, served as a radio operator in Occupied France. [Getty Images]

  • Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars

    Helen Fry

    Yale University Press, pp. 464, £25

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