A 23-year-old widow and mother of a toddler parachuted into Nazi-occupied France days after D-Day, armed with a submachine gun and a personal vendetta. This is the documented story of Violette Szabo, a bilingual London shop girl who became one of the most legendary agents of the Special Operations Executive.

Born to a British father and French mother, Szabo grew up code-switching between cultures, an unwitting training ground for espionage. After her husband Etienne was killed at El Alamein, she channeled her grief into service, mastering fieldcraft, cryptography, and sabotage before her final, fateful mission in the French countryside.

• Her recruitment into F Section and the bespoke poem cipher written for her by Leo Marks
• Her first deployment to assess a compromised resistance circuit in Rouen
• The roadblock ambush where a twisted ankle led her to lay down covering fire for a comrade
• Her capture by the SS, interrogation, and imprisonment at Ravensbruck concentration camp
• Her posthumous George Cross, presented to her four-year-old daughter Tania