Clare Mulley, FRHistS, is an award-winning author and broadcaster, primarily focused on female experience during the Second World War.

Books include AGENT ZO, about the only woman to parachute from Britain to occupied-Poland during the Second World War, longlisted for The Women’s Prize for Non Fiction; THE WOMEN WHO FLEW FOR HITLER, telling the remarkable story of Nazi Germany’s only two female test pilots, one of whom tried to save Hitler’s life while the other tried to kill him; THE SPY WHO LOVED about Churchill’s ‘favourite spy’, the Polish-born British special agent Krystyna Skarbek aka Christine Granville; and THE WOMAN WHO SAVED THE CHILDREN, the inspiring story of Eglantyne Jebb, the controversial founder of Save the Children. All are all under option, and widely translated. Clare writes and reviews for journals including the Spectator, TLS and BBC History Magazine, and has judged both the HWA non-fiction prize and the Slightly Foxed Biographers Club prize. Popular on podcasts such as History Hit, and radio including Women’s Hour, she is a regular face on TV, contributing to the BBC’s Second World War commemorations, Rise of the Nazis series, Newsnight and The One Show, as well as many series for Channel 5, Channel 4, the History Channel and Sky.

Clare and is a recipient of the Bene Merito cultural honour of the Republic of Poland, and the Daily Mail Biographers Club Prize. She lives in Essex with the sculptor Ian Wolter, too many books, and a hairy grey lurcher who needs to have more baths. www.claremulley.com