A review by juliebcooper
A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII. by Sarah Helm

3.0

I wanted to give this 4 stars but after thinking about it a bit more, I can't, simply because the author, Helm, assembled this biography in such a way as to make it confusing at times. Perhaps she needed a better editor. It is a bio of Vera Atkins, and includes fascinating and heartbreaking mini-bios of the female SOE operatives. But the structure of this book left a lot to be desired. Musings and guesses as what people *might* have thought or done was more of a distraction than anything else. Still, I would recommend this if you're interested in WW2 history and in the stories of these brave women. Atkins was certainly a force to be reckoned with.