![]() ![]() The second part concerns Vera’s life before the war and her move to Britain. The first part concerns Vera’s time in SOE during the war, the setting up of agent networks in France, and the disastrous handling of the Prosper and related networks in which London was expertly played through a ‘radio game’ in which the Germans broadcast through captured wireless sets and fresh agents were parachuted into their waiting hands. Sarah Helm’s book explores Vera’s life and in particular her role in SOE and her post-war quest. After the war she travelled to France and Germany and doggedly investigated the fate of those agents that fell into the hands of the Gestapo, visiting concentration camps and interrogating Nazi officers and officials. Vera took particular interest in the female agents, always trying to be at the airfield when the departed. ![]() Throughout her life she moved in the higher echelons of society and through her contacts she secured a post working for the nascent SOE, formed to place agents into enemy territory to collect information and undertake sabotage. After her father’s death she changed her surname from Rosenberg to her mother’s maiden name, seeking to hide her Jewish heritage, and moved to Britain in the late 1930s. ![]() ![]() Vera Atkins was born in Romania in 1908, schooled in Switzerland, and travelled widely prior to the Second World War, including Germany, England, South Africa (in each of which she had family) and the Middle East. ![]()
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