Clare Mulley

Carve their names with pride

Rick Stroud’s story of the lonely courage of Violette Szabo and her colleagues is both engaging and deeply poignant

issue 11 March 2017

  • Lonely Courage: The True Story of the SOE Heroines who Fought to Free Nazi-Occupied France

    Rick Stroud

    Simon & Schuster, pp. 295

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