This is the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka the WW2 female resistance fighter known as
Agent Zo. Agent Zo was the only woman to reach London from Warsaw during the Second World War
as an emissary of the Polish Home Army command and then in Britain she became the only woman
to join the Polish elite Special Forces known as the 'Silent Unseen'. She was secretly trained
in the British countryside and then the only female member of these SOE affiliated forces to
be parachuted back behind enemy lines to Nazi-occupied Poland. There whilst being hunted by
the Gestapo who arrested her entire family she took a leading role in the Warsaw Uprising and
the liberation of Poland. After the war she was demobbed as one of the most highly decorated
women in Polish history. Yet the Soviet-backed post-war Communist regime not only imprisoned
her but also ensured that her remarkable story remained hidden for over forty years. Now
through new archival research and exclusive interviews with people who knew and fought
alongside Zo Clare Mulley brings this forgotten heroine back to life and also transforms how
we see the history of women's agency in the Second World War.
