The extraordinary true story of one of the last female

special operation agents in France to get out alive

after its liberation in WWII.

Born in 1921, Pippa Latour was a covert special

operations agent who parachuted into a field in Nazioccupied Normandy.

Trained by the British as a Special Operations

Executive, Pippa was lauded for her fluency with

languages and her coding ability — both attributes

she put to remarkable use as she posed as a

teenage soap seller, often selling soap to the

German soldiers, and sending back information via

code to the UK.

Incredibly brave — Pippa knew she would be

instantly shot if her cover was blown — she

concealed her codes in pieces of silk that she

threaded through a flat shoelace and wore as a hair

tie. She bicycled around the region, often sleeping

rough and foraging for food.

During her time in Normandy, Pippa sent 135 secret

messages conveying crucial information on German

troop positions in the lead-up to D-Day. Pippa

continued her mission until France's liberation in

August 1944.

For decades, Pippa told no one — not even her

family — of her incredible feats during WWII.

Now, for the first time, her story can be told in full.