The Next Big Thing

'Agent Zou' is the astonishing true story of Elzbieta Zławacka, the World War II resistance fighter known as 'Zou'. The only woman to arrive in London from Warsaw during World War II as an envoy for the Polish National Army Command, Zou flew two missions in the capital before undergoing secret training at the Special Operations Department in the British countryside. As the only female member of the elite Polish special forces - the 'Invisible Silents' of the Special Operations Service - Zou became the only woman She parachuted from Britain into Nazi-occupied Poland and, while pursued by the Gestapo (who arrested her entire family), played a pivotal role in the Warsaw Uprising and, ultimately, in the liberation of Poland after the war. Forty years on, now, through new archival research and exclusive interviews with people who knew Zhou and fought alongside her, Claire Maule brings this forgotten heroine back to life, changing our view of women's roles in World War II.