Sarah Helm

During World War Two, the Special Operations Executive's French Section sent more than 400 agents into Occupied France—at least 100 never returned and were reported 'Missing Believed Dead' after the war. Twelve of these were women who died in German concentration camps—some were tortured, some were shot, and some died in the gas chambers. Vera Atkins had helped prepare these...

Winner of the Longman-History Today Book Prize: A 'profoundly moving chronicle' (Observer) that tells the story of Ravensbrück, the only concentration camp designed specifically for women, using new testimony from survivors. On a sunny morning in May 1939, a phalanx of 800 women—housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes—were marched through the woods fifty miles north of Berlin, driven on past...