A revealing new biography of SOE operative Odette Sansom, first female winner of the GC

Penny Starns was awarded her doctorate in history at the University of Bristol and specialises in the history of the Second World War. She has researched and taught at Cambridge, London and Bristol universities, and has written history programmes for BBC Radio 4. Her other books include Nurses at War and Evacuation of Children during World War II. She lives in Bristol.