Spying has long been viewed as a man’s game, but throughout history, women have played pivotal roles in intelligence operations that significantly influenced the outcomes of wars. These women worked ...

Women played key roles in D-Day, the Allied seaborne invasion of Nazi-held France. "Women are the hidden figures of D-Day," says journalist Sarah Rose. These are three of the British agents who ...

On Saturday, March 8, historian and author Kit Sergeant will present her program, “World War II Women Spies,” at 2 p.m. at the Glen Ellyn History Center, 800 N. Main St. The Glen Ellyn Historical ...

Kit Sergeant, the author of the “Women Spies” novels, will visit the Glen Ellyn History Center to give a presentation on the heroics of two women in wartime France. Sergeant will describe the ...

Were going now to Torquay in the southwest of England. Until a few weeks ago, that faded ocean-side resort town was the home of an elderly woman named Eileen Nearne. No one there knew much about her.

For nearly six decades, she was the wife of a famed military aviator. Nobody knew she was a hero in her own right, a spy who reported on Soviet troop movements from behind what came to be called the ...

In a never-before-seen adventure into the stories of the unknown, History At Play™ embodies the spirit of international women who risked their lives to defeat Fascism in World War II. World War Women™ ...

Stoic Vera Atkins was determined to build a network of female agents, Virginia Hall made a daring escape from France, Mathilde Carré was a treacherous double agent, Noor Inayat Khan was a Muslim ...

Many believe women in World War II were limited to nursing, but the reality is far more complex. From pilots and spies to factory workers and frontline resistance fighters, women played critical roles ...

Greek women in WWII—from resistance fighters to agents of social change who shaped womanhood into what it is today.

Wednesday is the 80th anniversary of VE Day, marking Germany’s unconditional surrender and the end of WWII in Europe. A new book “Spitfires” tells the little-known contribution American women made to ...