A quiet courage: heart-stopping accounts of those brave women agents who risked their lives in Nazi-occupied France.

In the autumn of 1941 the first agents of SOE (The Special Operations Executive was a British World War II organisation) were parachuted into France, their aim "to set Europe ablaze". Some were exposed early on, but managed to escape, some were captured and brutally interrogated and some were sent to concentration camps. They were all intelligent, resourceful and courageous, and some of them were women. This is their story as seen through the eyes of those women, including Odette Churchill, Yvonne Cormeau, Didi Nearne and Lise de Baissac, each of whom worked with local resistance groups, helping to arm and organize them, and daily facing the possibility of capture and torture.