Meet the fearless women who played the ultimate game of spies. Secrets, danger, and daring missions? These ladies have all ...

Were going now to Torquay in the southwest of England. Until a few weeks ago, that faded ocean-side resort town was the home of an elderly woman named Eileen Nearne. No one there knew much about her.

Women played key roles in D-Day, the Allied seaborne invasion of Nazi-held France. "Women are the hidden figures of D-Day," says journalist Sarah Rose. These are three of the British agents who ...

On Saturday, March 8, historian and author Kit Sergeant will present her program, “World War II Women Spies,” at 2 p.m. at the Glen Ellyn History Center, 800 N. Main St. The Glen Ellyn Historical ...

Kit Sergeant, the author of the “Women Spies” novels, will visit the Glen Ellyn History Center to give a presentation on the heroics of two women in wartime France. Sergeant will describe the ...

For nearly six decades, she was the wife of a famed military aviator. Nobody knew she was a hero in her own right, a spy who reported on Soviet troop movements from behind what came to be called the ...

Stoic Vera Atkins was determined to build a network of female agents, Virginia Hall made a daring escape from France, Mathilde Carré was a treacherous double agent, Noor Inayat Khan was a Muslim ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

Bookcases continue to be filled with new accounts of the beginning of World War II and/or the myths and truths behind Pearl Harbor and related Japanese espionage. Ronald Drabkin’s first book, “Beverly ...

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