Agent Zo (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2024) Agent Zo aka Elżbieta Zawacka / Elizabeth Watson, was the only woman to parachute from Britain to Nazi-occupied Poland during the Second World War. As the only female member of the Polish special forces, the ‘Silent Unseen’, being secretly trained in British country houses, this didn’t faze her. Zo had already spent three years serving in the resistance behind enemy lines across Europe, while being hunted by the Gestapo, and she would go on to serve in the largest organised act of defiance against Nazi Germany: the Warsaw Uprising. After the war Zo was demobbed as one of the most highly decorated women in Polish history. Yet the Soviet-backed post-war Communist regime not only imprisoned her, but also ensured that her remarkable story remained hidden for over forty years. Now, through new archival research and exclusive interviews with people who knew and fought alongside Zo, Clare Mulley brings this forgotten heroine back to life, transforming the way we see women’s agency in the Second World War.