TY - BOOK AU - Szabó,Tania TI - Young, brave and beautiful: the missions of Special Operations Executive agent Lieutenant Violette Szabó, George Cross, Croix de Guerre avec Étoile de Bronze SN - 9780750962094 (hbk.) : AV - D810 U1 - 940.548641092 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Stroud, Gloucestershire PB - The History Press KW - Szabo, Violette, KW - Great Britain KW - Special Operations Executive KW - Espionage, British KW - France KW - History KW - 20th century KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Secret service KW - Warfare and Defence KW - ukslc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - SOE agent Violette Szabó was the daughter of an English father and French mother, and widow of a French army officer killed in action in North Africa in 1942. On her second mission she was captured by the Germans, interrogated and tortured, and deported to Germany where she was eventually executed at Ravensbrück concentration camp. The bare bones of her story say nothing of the sabotage, gun battles and betrayal ER -