Mission Europe

Mission Europe explores the remarkable and often overlooked stories of women recruited by Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) to conduct covert missions across occupied Europe during the Second World War. Unlike the well-known F Section agents in France, this book focuses on women who operated in countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Denmark, and Jewish agents recruited in Mandate Palestine for Eastern Europe missions.

Kate Vigurs examines why women were recruited, their successes and failures, and celebrates the ordinary women who performed extraordinary acts of resistance, sabotage, and support for local resistance movements.

The book is noted for its even-handed, compassionate, and clear storytelling without sentimentality or heroine worship.