In the summer of 1944, in a village in German-occupied western France, a slim young woman with dark hair and grey-green eyes sat in a building with a wireless set, tapping out messages in Morse code.
She was an agent in the Special Operations Executive (SOE), known as Churchill’s Secret Army. Her codename was Genevieve and she was sending urgent messages back to London.
The French resistance in the area was sabotaging key transport links, disrupting German forces as they fought the Allied advance. For this they needed supplies – dropped by air from Britain – and aerial support.
