Agent Zo: The woman who defied the Nazis and Communists
Jan 28, 2025•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
Agent Zo was the only female Polish resistance agent to reach London as a courier during WWII and the only female member of Poland's fabled 'Silent Unseen' paratroopers. Yet despite having researched Poland's wartime resistance movement, many of us have never heard of her. Why?
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