Dr. Kate Vigurs is a freelance historian, academic advisor, and researcher. Her postdoctoral research was used for the BBC World War One at Home series and makes regular appearances on television and radio. Kate is the author of Mission France: The True History of the Women of the SOE, telling the story of the thirty-nine female SOE agents who when ordered by Churchill to ‘set Europe ablaze’ went undercover in France, to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance.

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