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Author: The #WomenWhoFlewForHitler ' (from diff motives), #SpyWhoLoved (freedom), & #WomanWhoSavedTheChildren (but didn't like them much). #AgentZo out 2024.
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Today, 6 yrs after I first proposed it, Polish-born
#KrystynaSkarbek
aka
#ChristineGranville
finally receives her
@EnglishHeritage
#BluePlaque
! The 1st woman to serve GB as a
#WW2
#specialagent
, her inspirational true story & legendary achievements told in my bk
#TheSpyWhoLoved
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Among those murdered in the Holocaust were 20,000 Hungarian Jews, shot on the banks of the Danube, having been forced to remove their shoes. The shoes were deemed to hold value. Sculptor Gyula Pauer’s monument is composed of 60 pairs of shoes in iron.
#HolocaustMemorialDay
895
12K
61K
A wreath for the Polish special forces paras, the
#cichociemni
or
#SilentUnseen
, who trained at nearby
#AudleyEndHouse
.
#LestWeForget2023
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Phyllis ‘Pippa’ Latour, the last
#SOE
agent, has died aged 102. Left South Africa to join the British WAAF in 1941. Parachuted to
#Normandy
1944. Sent 135 coded messages to help target bombing missions.
Thanks to
@historical_kate
who knew Pippa.
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I’m absolutely thrilled to be sitting in the new ‘Granville Suite’ in London’s brand new
#Raffles
hotel in the renovated
#OldWarOffice
.
It is named in honour of the first woman to serve Britain as a special agent in
#WW2
… 1/9
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Honoured to be at the unveiling of a plaque to
#WW2
#SOE
agent
#LilianRolfe
in
#Paris
today.
Wireless operator in France 1944, executed Ravensbrück after many months service & 64 consistently accurate messages.
#lestweforget
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Sums up what I like best about today: disagreeing agreeably.
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Laying a wreath in
#SaffronWalden
to remember the
#Cichociemni
#SilentUnseen
, the Polish elite special forces paratroopers who trained at
#audleyend
#LestWeForget
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#EdithCavell
,
#BornOnThisDay
1865. Executed in Brussels by German firing squad, for espionage, in 1915.
A short 🧵1/6
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Happy 100th birthday to Polish
#WW2
hero
#JanBlack
#JanStangreciuk
.
A rear gunner on Lancasters with the 300 Sqn, he suffered terrible burns during the war. A member of the Guinea Pig Club, he was one of the first servicemen in Britain to receive plastic surgery.
#Stolat
#BOTD
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The remarkable Flt Lt
#ColinBell
celebrating his 103 birthday today at the
#RAFClub
!
An honour & a joy to join him.
A
#Pathfinder
#Mosquito
pilot during
#WW2
, Colin knows the value of life & is living it to the full. Never a dull moment as he recounted stories from his life :)
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#JeanMoulin
, unifier of the
#FrenchResistance
, was arrested in this doctor’s surgery, 1943.
A privilege to be allowed in to film with
@james1940
this morning.
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One of my highlights this year; celebrating
#WW2
Mosquito pilot
@ColinBellsrt
‘s 102 birthday.
Happy new year Colin, & happy new year everyone! See you on the other side :)
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Thrilled that wonderful
#NoreenRiols
, one of the last female members of the
#SpecialOperationsExecutive
SOE French Section, has today received an
#MBE
. She has dedicated it to her fallen comrades. Her story is told in her memoir
#TheMinistryofAgandFish
. Congratulations Noreen!
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Wishing a wonderful birthday to
#WW2
#WAAF
#PippaLatourDoyle
, the last surviving female
#WW2
#SOE
agent.
#botd
1921, Pippa parachuted into
#OccupiedFrance
before
#DDay
, hiding strips of coding silk inside her shoe laces…
@sallyacb275
@historical_kate
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A year ago today,
#AllSaintsDay
, I lit a candle for
#El
źbietaZawacka aka
#Zo
, the only woman to parachute from GB to serve in enemy occupied-Poland during WW2.
Today I’m paying my respects in a different way, starting ch 10 of my bk abt her, to be published by
@wnbooks
in 2023/24
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I’m in the Greek islands for my birthday, & my youngest daughter gave me this golden wreath. I feel like a (minor) goddess! Have a wonderful Sunday everyone!
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My 5-yr campaign to get a
#blueplaque
for 1st woman to serve Britain as a
#specialagent
in
#WW2
hits
@thesundaytimes
, thx to
@EnglishHeritage
@aliceHutton
@PolishEmbassyUK
. Please
@lexhamgardens1
hotel, help us honour
#KrystynaSkarbek
aka
#ChristineGranville
#TheSpyWhoLoved
!
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Happy Christmas from me and mum, in crowns, in the pub 😁😁
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Very sorry to learn that
#SecondWorldWar
#Wellington
#RearGunner
#JanStangryczukBlack
has died, aged 101.
In Nov 1942 he suffered appalling burns. A member of the
#GuineapigClub
, he stayed active in veteran communities.
A great gentleman, I will miss his warmth and conversation
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A happy woman! Those very kind people at
@imperialwarmuseums
#duxford
let me sit in a
#Spitfire
…
I didn’t have a parachute so sat on a cushion, but amazing to have the pilot’s view… next goal, to see the sky above and around me in one sometime!
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Wonderful
@TheRAFClub
lunch with WW2 Mosquito pilot
#ColinBell
DFC. Colin carried out 50 perilous ops over Germany.
At 102 (!) he’s still riveting company & I’m looking forward to his imminent birthday party!
Thank you to Mark Vickers for the photos.
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She secured the defection of an entire Nazi German garrison in
#WW2
,
#KrystynaSkarbek
aka
#ChristineGranville
,
#bornotd
1908… but please help me with a mini mystery about her… 🧵🪡 1/5
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WW2 WAAF
#LilianBader
, one of the first black women to join the British Armed Forces,
#bornonthisday
1918
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Born
#OTD
1909,
#el
żbietazawacka, only female Polish resistance fighter to smuggle precious intelligence to Britain in
#WW2
, then only woman among Polish
#specialforces
#cichociemni
(
#SilentUnseen
) to parachute back behind enemy lines. I’m writing her life story
#AgentZo
@wnbooks
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One year ago today, honoured to unveil the
@EnglishHeritage
#blueplaque
to
#krystynaskarbek
aka
#christinegranville
#thespywholoved
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Christmas party ready :)
Hope everyone’s having a lovely weekend!
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Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown,
#botd
1919.
@royalnavy
#pilot
during the
#2WW
, & Britain’s greatest
#testpilot
.
#EricBrown
#Winkle
A short 🧵🪡
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Today, 1941, the 1st
#SilentUnseen
or
#Cichociemni
elite Polish
#SpecialForces
, parachuted from GB to Nazi-occupied
#Poland
.
Over 2,500 volunteered, 800 selected, 579 completed training, 316 saw action in Poland, inc
1 woman:
#El
żbietaZawacka aka Zo.
#AgentZo
is out on 16 May!
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New book soon…
New author photo now!
@Jpmasclet
is the photography king! Thank you for such a great shot, & lots of good chat too :)
I’m wearing red to match the cover of
#AgentZo
, designed in the colours of Poland, & published by
@wnbooks
on 16 May!!!
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I'm delighted to be talking about my book,
#TheWomenWhoFlewForHitler
- 2 tests pilots, one tried to save Hitler, the other to kill him - at the
#BritishModernMilitaryHistorySociety
tomorrow eve, 8 June at 7.30pm...
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My daughter just saw me in
#RiseOfTheNazis
in her history lesson.
Thank you
@BBCTwo
, parent credibility a little higher this afternoon!
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General
#El
żbietaZawacka, aka ‘
#Zo
’, died
#OTD
2009.
She was the only woman in the Polish special force
#paramilitary
, the
#cichociemni
or
#silentunseen
.
My new book
#AgentZo
#WomanOnAMission
, will be published by
@wnbooks
in 2024.
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Killing my darlings.
This is the worst stage of writing a book… I’m doing the edit - all that work & copy ending up on the floor! 🙄😳😭
Send me strength, and later, cocktails.
#AgentZo
, hopefully out in May (shorter) with
@wnbooks
@GeorginaCapel
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In 1944
#KrystynaSkarbek
secured the defection of a Nazi German garrison on a strategic pass in the Alps. She went on to save the lives of 3 male colleagues just before they were shot. She was
#TheSpyWhoLoved
, Britain’s first female special agent of WW2.
#BOTD
, in Poland, 1908
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#botd
1908
#krystynaskarbek
#christinegranville
1st woman to serve GB as a WW2
#specialagent
. Secured defection of a strategic German garrison. Rescued 3 male officers from execution. Churchill’s ‘favourite spy’. I tell her full story in
#thespywholoved
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So, several friends have had books published this year already. I’m at the other end of things. Wish me well… deep breath and off we go…
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#krystynaskarbek
aka
#christinegranville
was born a Polish countess. She was the longest-serving agent, male or female, & among the highest achieving…
In 1941, after her latest remarkable mission,
#winstonchurchill
called Granville his ‘favourite spy’. 2/9
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Being overlooked & underestimated often helped women get the job done during the world wars.
But we shouldn’t overlook them now.
My 3 published books, +
#AgentZo
out in May, tell some of their stories.
All great Christmas reads!
Ps, one of those women tried to kill Hitler…
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Hooray! After a 6 year campaign,
@EnglishHeritage
has announced a London
#BluePlaque
for
#KrystynaSkarbek
aka
#ChristineGranville
Britain’s 1st female
#specialagent
of
#WW2
. Read her incredible story in my book
#TheSpyWhoLoved
! More details to follow!
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It has been a joy joining Zo on her perilous wartime missions - from the safe distance of 80 years…
Today I finished the final edit!
Thank you to
@syncoltan
for creating this images & kindly sending it my way to mark the publication of
#AgentZo
by
@wnbooks
on 16 May 2024!
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Wha! It is real, & burning my fingers!!
My publisher has sent me the first copy of
#AgentZo
hot off the press!
Thank you to everyone who has helped bring this remarkable woman’s story to light!
Agent Zo is published on 16 May, but available for pre-order now :)
📘📗📙📕❤️🔥🔥
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Amazing to be standing inside the Warsaw bank building, a Home Army (resistance) base during the
#WarsawUprising
. Bullet holes in the walls. Broken floor tiles where the people I’m writing about fought & died. Very moving.
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Birthday congratulations to Col.
#OttonHulacki
, Polish veteran of the
#1944
Battle of
#MonteCassino
serving with
#GeneralAnders
#PolishSecondCorps
. 101 today… 200 lat!
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In my biography of her, which tells her remarkable life story using interviews with friends & family, archives in London & Warsaw, & liberal use of the Freedom of Information Act! 9/9
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This one’s not ready for Christmas…
but coming in May!!!
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Thanks to
@James1940
@almurray
Izzy & all the
@WeHaveWaysPod
fest team, & everyone who came to hear me talk… or shouted out answers on the quiz!! You’re all brilliant, thank you.
Hopefully see you next year!
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Johan van Hulst, Who Helped Save 600 Children From the Nazis, Dies at 107
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I remember being dismissed similarly, though not for tv then. Especially as I dared to research women in war. Things are improving but there’s still a way to go. Anyone on here enjoy being lectured at by a woman?
"Nobody wants to be lectured at by a woman!" is what British historian
@bettanyhughes
was told in the late 1990s.
Watch the full episode:
#TheInnerView
#history
#bettanyhughes
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@mad4sci
There are more - a mix of men's, women's and children's shoes, each typical 1940s style.
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Another bookcase in another hall… Just inherited these from my father-in-law. Where should I start?!
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As every year, laying a wreath to remember the Polish elite paratroopers, the
#chicociemni
or
#silentandunseen
, who trained at local
#audleyend
house, among all the other wreaths at our memorial in
#saffronwalden
this morning. Wonderful turn out. Very moving
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#Lyon
is a city with a history of defiance. In
#WW2
the extraordinary
#Traboules
- passageways & staircases with many exits - across the city were a godsend for the resistance!
Having a fascinating time filming here with the brilliant
@James1940
…
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With the excellent
@DrHelenFry
&
@almurray
just before our talk today… at the fabulous
@WeHaveWaysPod
fest!
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Laying a wreath for the brave men & woman of the
#cichociemni
, the elite special forces of the Polish government in exile, who trained at my home town
#saffronwalden
#audleyend
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Happy 19th birthday to my lovely middle girl, matriculating today!
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#otd1943
the inspirational
#PearlWitherington
was parachuted into enemy-occupied France. She’s on the far right… 1/5
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Marking
#polishspecialforcesday
with Col Otton Hulacki, who served at
#MonteCassino
, at a reception at the
@PolishEmbassyUK
.
#polishhistory
#sharedhistory
#livingmemory
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#otd
1947, Tania Szabo is presented with her mother’s
#GeorgeCross
.
#VioletteSzabo
did not return from occupied-France on her 2nd mission.
2nd pic shows Tania at
#Tempsford
memorial. The last name,
#El
żbietaZawacka, is
#AgentZo
, the subject of my next book…
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Delighted to have been elected a Fellow of the
#RoyalHistoricalSociety
@RoyalHistSoc
, ‘in recognition of your contribution to historical fellowship’, they kindly write! Hooray for
#TheWomanWhoSavedTheChildren
#TheSpyWhoLoved
#TheWomenWhoFlewForHitler
. Coming 2024…
#AgentZo
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With my lovely friend & fellow historian Jeff Bines, after wreath-laying today.
We both live near
#AudleyEndHouse
where the Polish
#Cichociemni
trained before parachuting back to enemy-occupied territory in
#WW2
. We’ve both written about them & remember together every year.
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Coins concealing blades…Part of the
#SOE
kit on display at
@sterminshotel
#StErminsHotel
, where
#Churchill
is said to have launched SOE in 1940 with the instruction to ‘set Europe ablaze’!
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‘The Polish aristo who was Churchill's favourite spy’,
@BBCNews
. Grt piece on
#WW2
#SpecialAgent
#KrystynaSkarbek
aka
#ChristineGranville
,
#TheSpyWhoLoved
, also referencing my next bk
#AgentZo
!
I’ll never leave this history behind:
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A great honour to give the graveside address at the reinterment of British heroine
#EglantyneJebb
in Geneva today… A short 🧵
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Looking forward to another day’s filming about
#JeanMoulin
and the
#FrenchResistance
with
@James1940
in
#Lyon
today!
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#BornOTD
, Pujji, Mahinder Singh (1918–2010).
Born Simla, India. Arrived Britain via S Africa during the Blitz.
@RoyalAirForce
fighter pilot serving in all 3 major theatres of the war.
With thanks to
@odnb
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UK's oldest poppy seller and Auschwitz survivor Ron Jones dies at 102
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Good to see my sculptor husband
@wolter_ian
’s
#kindertransport
memorial in
#harwich
getting attention. And I’m looking forward to seeing the
#NicholasWinton
film…
#Saturdaystatue
'Kindertransport', Harwich, created 2022 by sculptor
@wolter_ian
. This month sees the release of the film One Life which tells the remarkable story of Nicholas Winton who arranged for the rescue of hundreds of children from Czechoslovakia & certain death in 1938/9
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Just had a blast recording a
@WeHaveWaysPod
with
@James1940
&
@almurray
… out soon…
Pic is me & James talking WW2 aircraft I think, a while ago at
@CVHISTORYFEST
.
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After 2 weeks walking in Wales & the Lakes, I got scrubbed up for a glorious wedding :)
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My next book will tell the story of
#El
żbietaZawacka aka
#Zo
. So I was delighted to find her name on the memorial honouring the women who served in the Warsaw resistance.
Determined they should not be forgotten, Zo personally funded the memorial, outside the
@WarsawRising44
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#PaulineGill
obituary.
One of the last women who operated the machines at
@bletchleypark
that broke the
#Enigma
codes, helping to shorten
#WW2
.
Later, ‘a demon scrabble player’… I bet!
Sad indeed to be losing this generation.
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Oh I miss the old days, when we thoughtlessly went about our usual business 🙄
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Remembering all those who fought the Nazis during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, the courageous armed revolt wh started 80 yrs ago today, & lasted to 16 May. The ghetto boundary is marked in the Warsaw pavements today. These were taken last week.
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Just pressed send on my next book -
#AgentZo
!
2 years writing, birthday today, edit next month :)
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This is
#Zo
.
#botd
in 1909 as
#El
żbietaZawacka, aka
#ElizabethWatson
.
Within a few years she was serving as one of the most fearless resistance fighters in the
#secondworldwar
… 🧵🪡
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Sorry for being a show off, but this is a 1st for me… my bk
#TheSpyWhoLoved
, momentarily peaked at number 43 on
@AmazonUK
!
Top in several categories, so I guess I can now say I’m a ‘best-seller’?!
Privileged to tell this history.
Thanks to
@timstks
& everyone who bought a copy!
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Delighted to post the full cover of
#AgentZo
, with quotes from the book’s first readers…
@James1940
@HallieRubenhold
@Roger_Moorhouse
@annesebba
@Freedland
&
@simonmontefiore
I love it so much - thank you all &
@wnbooks
!
#AgentZo
is published 16 May :)
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For
#IWD2023
, this is the international woman I am currently sharing my life with…
#AgentZo
#WomanOnAMission
, the only female
#SilentAndUnseen
parachutist / SOE Polish section
#SpecialAgent
, in
#WW2
.
I’m still writing but book should be published by
@wnbooks
next spring!
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On this day in 2014, then (& now again) Polish Foreign Minister
@radek_sikorski
awarded me Poland’s ‘Bene Merito’ cultural distinction for my work on Polish / British history.
10 yrs later, the region’s history feels ever more important… & I’m writing about it again!
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Wren Margaret Betts, brilliant Bombe machine operator who supported Bletchley codebreaking has died:
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A new plaque to British SOE
#specialagent
#LilianRolfe
, murdered at Ravensbrück in 1945, has been installed at her Paris home thanks her relation, Barbara Cronk.
Official unveiling once Covid allows.
#HistoricalTrips
friends will remember hearing Lilian's story in
#Nargis
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Very moved by
#OneLife
,
#NicholasWinton
biopic. Here’s his grandson with me at the unveiling of my husband
@wolter_ian
’s
#kindertransport
memorial at Harwich. Due to Covid, Ian cldn’t get models, so the 1st child is our daughter. A child. One life.
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Very pleased to contribute to the
@BBCNews
online tribute to
#PhyllisLatour
, the last surviving
#SOE
French section female agent, who has died age 102.
‘The secret life of a WW2 heroine revealed.’
Thanks to
@Sanchia7
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Sigh… I’ve dropped 2 daughters off to uni in the space of a week.
Loving seeing them shake out their wings, but very glad I’ve still got one to keep me company!
And what a view from an attic window!
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All over my daughter’s school, where I’m giving a talk on Thursday.
Boy is she pleased… ;)
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When a shell exploded beneath them on his 13th op,
#WW2
#Mosquito
pilot
#ColinBell
's life was saved by the parachute packed beneath his seat, which blocked the shrapnel. It was a privilege to spend time with him, now 101, & other veterans at the last
#ProjectPropeller
reunion.
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Daniel Cordier, one of last heroes of French resistance, dies aged 100
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My band once supported
#TheMenTheyCouldntHang
who were supporting
#ThePogues
. We were a warm up for a warm up. Best gig we ever did. RIP
#ShaneMacGowan
.
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Who first broke the Nazi
#Enigma
system?
While in Warsaw, I was delighted to join
@WW2girl1944
interviewing
@robgawlowski
about the maths & cipher genius
#MarianRejewski
:
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Remembering
#SOE
agents
#VioletteSzabo
#LilianRolfe
&
#DeniseBloch
, all captured separately in occupied France & executed at
#Ravensbruck
concentration camp
#otd
#1945
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My wonderful friend, journalist, author & social activist Lyra McKee was shot & killed while reporting on the Belfast riots last night. She had a 2 book deal, she was deeply in love, Belfast needed her. More later.
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