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

4.0

It took forever to get this read, but was well worth the time. A fascinating and haunting biography of an interesting life, cloaked in secrecy. The biographer does a superb job in organizing, parsing, and uniting all the stories that make up this book. Kudos to her for unraveling the mystery. This book is well worth reading if you're interested in covert operations in WWII, British history, women's history. It's also one of those books that starts you off on other journeys. I'll now have to read some of the other books mentioned by the author, particularly biographies of Noor Inayat Khan, a wireless operator dropped into France, who was a princess descended from the last Mogul emperor of southern India, whose father was a Sufi mystic and whose mother was a relative of Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science church.