Award-winning author Clare Mulley tells the extraordinary story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the only woman selected for the WW2 Polish special forces unit, knows as ‘The Silent Unseen’.

After training in the British countryside, Zawacka was parachuted back behind enemy lines where – whilst being hunted by the Gestapo, who arrested her entire family – she took a leading role in the Warsaw Uprising and the liberation of Poland. Yet the post-war Communist regime imprisoned her and ensured the remarkable story of Agent Zo remained hidden for over 40 years. Now, for the first time, it can be told by Clare Mulley, award-winning author of The Spy Who Loved and The Woman Who Saved The Children.

This event will last approximately 1 hour, without an interval. 

About the speaker:

Clare Mulley is an award-winning author and historian. All her books are under option for TV and film, and widely translated. A regular contributor to TV (BBC’s Rise of the Nazis and Newsnight, Channel 5’s Secret History of WW2, and Adolf & Eva), radio (Radio 4 Today, Woman’s Hour, Great Lives, PM) and podcasts (Spectator, BBC History Extra, Dan Snow’s History Hit etc), and popular public speaker, Clare also writes and reviews non-fiction for the Telegraph, Spectator and History Today.