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“Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to give her life at any moment for a worthy cause, but rarely sparing a thought for the many casualties that fell in her wake.”
― Clare Mulley, The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville

“You'd think they would train these SOE girls better, it's just sloppy.' Hans sipped his cognac. 'She looked the wrong way crossing the road, silly girl.”
― Kate Lord Brown, The Beauty Chorus

“May be you find out I could be useful getting people out of camps and prisons in Germany - just before they got shot. I should love to do it and I like to jump out of a plane even every day.”
― Christine Granville

“She could do anything with dynamite, except eat it.”
― Clare Mulley

“Although there were serious attempts to unify the various strands of the French Resistance, the political situation remained somewhat complex throughout the war. It was into this complicated state of affairs that the first F Section agent of the SOE was parachuted into central France on the night of May 5-6, 1941. In the end, more than 400 SOE agents were sent into France during the course of the occupation, and 39 of them were women.

Pearl Witherington was one of those women. Although the SOE trained her to be a courier for a Resistance circuit called the Stationer network, nothing but her own strength, intelligence, and determination could have prepared her for the drastic change in roles that occurred while she was working in occupied France, a change that has made her one of the most celebrated female agents in SOE history”
― Kathryn J. Atwood, Code Name Pauline: Memoirs of a World War II Special Agent (5)

“The need to justify and its sister frailty, the need to boast, were lethal weaknesses in SOE.”
― Leo Marks, Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945

“There were only three things which SOE's agents could anticipate with confidence. That their parachutes would open, that their L-tablets would kill them, and that their messages from London would be accurately encoded.”
― Leo Marks, Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945

“The bloody-minded resilience with which they responded to disasters, especially those of their own making, their determination to liberate their territories no matter what, had been my first glimpse of what would one day be known as the Spirit of Resistance.”
― Leo Marks, Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945