audiobook Hinduism and Buddhism: An Historical Sketch Volume 2 by Charles Eliot in History

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From an award-winning journalist comes this real-life cloak-and-dagger tale of Vera Atkins; one of Britain’s premiere secret agents during World War II. As the head of the French Section of the British Special Operations Executive; Vera Atkins recruited; trained; and mentored special operatives whose job was to organize and arm the resistance in Nazi-occupied France. After the war; Atkins courageously committed herself to a dangerous search for twelve of her most cherished women spies who had gone missing in action. Drawing on previously unavailable sources; Sarah Helm chronicles Atkins’s extraordinary life and her singular journey through the chaos of post-war Europe. Brimming with intrigue; heroics; honor; and the horrors of war; A Life in Secrets is the story of a grand; elusive woman and a tour de force of investigative journalism.