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Agent Zo, the Polish Resistance, and Stalin’s Betrayal of Poland | Clare Mulley
How did one woman become one of the most extraordinary figures in the Polish Resistance?
In this powerful episode of History Book Buffs, Antonia Senior speaks to award-winning historian and biographer Claire Mulley about her brilliant book Agent Zo — the story of Elżbieta Zawacka, known as Agent Zo, a resistance courier, Warsaw Uprising fighter, and one of the most remarkable women of the Second World War.
But this conversation goes far beyond one life. Through Zo’s story, we explore the wider tragedy of Poland in World War Two: the double invasion by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, the…
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