Agent Zo: The woman who parachuted into Nazi-occupied Poland

The woman who left Britain to parachute into Nazi-occupied Poland On a crisp September night in 1943, a woman boarded a warplane ready to return to Poland to fight the Nazis, a parachute strapped to her back and a blue dress beneath her flight suit. Elżbieta Zawacka had arrived in the UK in May following a perilous journey lasting several months across 1,000 miles of occupied territory. Branded "the captain in a skirt" and "a militant female dictator" as she confronted those in charge in London, her efforts would transform...