Violette Szabo
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Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo, GC was a British-French Special Operations Executive agent during the Second World War and a posthumous recipient of the George Cross. On her second mission into occupi
Violette Szabo c.1944
The former Register Office in Aldershot, Hampshire where the Szabos married in 1940
Westland Lysander MkIII (SD)
George Cross and its ribbon bar
Carve Her Name with Pride
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Carve Her Name with Pride is a 1958 British war drama film based on the book of the same name by R. J. Minney.
Violette Szabo
…dangers". Odette Churchill GC said, "She was the bravest of us all." Szabo's wartime activities in German-occupied France were dramatised in the film Carve Her Name with Pride, starring Virginia McKenna and based on the 1956 book of the same name by R. J. Minney. The 2009 video game Velvet Assassin by Replay Studios is inspired…
Original film poster