Stunned!! 🌞🌞
My book about #2WW resistance hero #ElżbietaZawacka - aka #AgentZo - has been #shortlisted for the @womensprize for #NonFiction!!!
Alongside…
My book about #2WW resistance hero #ElżbietaZawacka - aka #AgentZo - has been #shortlisted for the @womensprize for #NonFiction!!!
Alongside…
March 26, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Stunned!! 🌞🌞
My book about #2WW resistance hero #ElżbietaZawacka - aka #AgentZo - has been #shortlisted for the @womensprize for #NonFiction!!!
Alongside…
My book about #2WW resistance hero #ElżbietaZawacka - aka #AgentZo - has been #shortlisted for the @womensprize for #NonFiction!!!
Alongside…
Laying a wreath to remember the #Cichociemni or #SilentUnseen, the elite Polish #SpecialForces during the #SecondWorldWar, who trained at #AudleyEnd house. The only woman among them #ElżbietaZawacka aka #Zo.
#LestWeForget
#LestWeForget
November 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Laying a wreath to remember the #Cichociemni or #SilentUnseen, the elite Polish #SpecialForces during the #SecondWorldWar, who trained at #AudleyEnd house. The only woman among them #ElżbietaZawacka aka #Zo.
#LestWeForget
#LestWeForget
December 4, 2024 at 5:47 PM
I’m absolutely thrilled & honoured that #AgentZo, my biog of resistance hero #ElżbietaZawacka, has bn longlisted for the @historicalwriters.bsky.social #HistoricalWritersAssociation Non Fiction prize!!
September 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I’m absolutely thrilled & honoured that #AgentZo, my biog of resistance hero #ElżbietaZawacka, has bn longlisted for the @historicalwriters.bsky.social #HistoricalWritersAssociation Non Fiction prize!!
It was wonderful to be back at the Battle of Britain Bunker, Uxbridge this morning, telling the story of Polish elite special forces resistance soldier #ElżbietaZawacka aka #AgentZo.
February 21, 2026 at 5:08 PM
It was wonderful to be back at the Battle of Britain Bunker, Uxbridge this morning, telling the story of Polish elite special forces resistance soldier #ElżbietaZawacka aka #AgentZo.
Love this, thank you for embracing this courageous resistance hero! #ElżbietaZawacka aka #AgentZo
August 23, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Love this, thank you for embracing this courageous resistance hero! #ElżbietaZawacka aka #AgentZo
Great to return to Polish TV in #Warsaw today, to talk about the inspirational #ElżbietaZawacka… #AgentZo!
December 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Great to return to Polish TV in #Warsaw today, to talk about the inspirational #ElżbietaZawacka… #AgentZo!
Tonight I am a very happy author…
I have just found #AgentkaZo, my biography of inspirational resistance fighter #ElżbietaZawacka, in the bookshops of her home town: #Toruń.
My 6-city Polish tour starts tomorrow!
I have just found #AgentkaZo, my biography of inspirational resistance fighter #ElżbietaZawacka, in the bookshops of her home town: #Toruń.
My 6-city Polish tour starts tomorrow!
October 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Tonight I am a very happy author…
I have just found #AgentkaZo, my biography of inspirational resistance fighter #ElżbietaZawacka, in the bookshops of her home town: #Toruń.
My 6-city Polish tour starts tomorrow!
I have just found #AgentkaZo, my biography of inspirational resistance fighter #ElżbietaZawacka, in the bookshops of her home town: #Toruń.
My 6-city Polish tour starts tomorrow!
What a joy to tell the story of the only woman in the elite Polish #specialforces in #WW2, #ElżbietaZawacka aka #AgentZo, to a sell-out event at the fabulous #IntlSpyMuseum in #WashingtonDC last night!
Thanks to all - what a great 1st event in the #USA!
Thanks to all - what a great 1st event in the #USA!
December 3, 2024 at 1:16 PM
What a joy to tell the story of the only woman in the elite Polish #specialforces in #WW2, #ElżbietaZawacka aka #AgentZo, to a sell-out event at the fabulous #IntlSpyMuseum in #WashingtonDC last night!
Thanks to all - what a great 1st event in the #USA!
Thanks to all - what a great 1st event in the #USA!
Paying my respects at the grave of the teacher, soldier, historian General Professor Elżbieta Zawacka, aka Zo, this morning at St George’s cemetery, Toruń.
White and red flowers, the colours of Poland.
#ElżbietaZawacka #cichociemni #cichociemna #Zo #AgentZo #AgentkaZo
White and red flowers, the colours of Poland.
#ElżbietaZawacka #cichociemni #cichociemna #Zo #AgentZo #AgentkaZo
October 4, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Paying my respects at the grave of the teacher, soldier, historian General Professor Elżbieta Zawacka, aka Zo, this morning at St George’s cemetery, Toruń.
White and red flowers, the colours of Poland.
#ElżbietaZawacka #cichociemni #cichociemna #Zo #AgentZo #AgentkaZo
White and red flowers, the colours of Poland.
#ElżbietaZawacka #cichociemni #cichociemna #Zo #AgentZo #AgentkaZo
Wonderful audience at the @guernseylitfest.bsky.social, to hear me talk about the defiant, determined, damned brilliant #ElżbietaZawacka aka #AgentZo this eve! Thank you to the organisers, volunteers & everyone who came along!
May 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Wonderful audience at the @guernseylitfest.bsky.social, to hear me talk about the defiant, determined, damned brilliant #ElżbietaZawacka aka #AgentZo this eve! Thank you to the organisers, volunteers & everyone who came along!
Among the 1st women to serve in the #WW2, & the only woman to parachute from Britain into Nazi German occupied Poland, #ElżbietaZawacka aka #Zo died on this day, 2009.
It was an absolute privilege, as well as a great adventure, to research and write her life story, #AgentZo… 🧵
It was an absolute privilege, as well as a great adventure, to research and write her life story, #AgentZo… 🧵
January 10, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Among the 1st women to serve in the #WW2, & the only woman to parachute from Britain into Nazi German occupied Poland, #ElżbietaZawacka aka #Zo died on this day, 2009.
It was an absolute privilege, as well as a great adventure, to research and write her life story, #AgentZo… 🧵
It was an absolute privilege, as well as a great adventure, to research and write her life story, #AgentZo… 🧵
Great to meet Charlie, the artist behind #ReclaimedHistoryArt, at @wehaveways.bsky.social 2025. Thank you for this portrait of the only woman to parachute from Britain to Nazi German-occupied Poland, the inspirational #ElżbietaZawacka aka #AgentZo!
September 14, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Great to meet Charlie, the artist behind #ReclaimedHistoryArt, at @wehaveways.bsky.social 2025. Thank you for this portrait of the only woman to parachute from Britain to Nazi German-occupied Poland, the inspirational #ElżbietaZawacka aka #AgentZo!
Delighted to have been interviewed for the current issue of #Poland’s #Sieci magazine.
Headline is: #WomenInTheSpotlight - in this case #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville #TheSpyWhoLoved, & #ElżbietaZawacka aka #AgentZo.
Headline is: #WomenInTheSpotlight - in this case #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville #TheSpyWhoLoved, & #ElżbietaZawacka aka #AgentZo.
October 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Delighted to have been interviewed for the current issue of #Poland’s #Sieci magazine.
Headline is: #WomenInTheSpotlight - in this case #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville #TheSpyWhoLoved, & #ElżbietaZawacka aka #AgentZo.
Headline is: #WomenInTheSpotlight - in this case #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville #TheSpyWhoLoved, & #ElżbietaZawacka aka #AgentZo.
3) #ElżbietaZawacka aka #Zo, 1909-2009. Among first women to serve in WW2, only woman to parachute from GB to occupied Poland, only female member of Poland’s elite special forces. (See #AgentZo)
March 8, 2026 at 3:25 PM
3) #ElżbietaZawacka aka #Zo, 1909-2009. Among first women to serve in WW2, only woman to parachute from GB to occupied Poland, only female member of Poland’s elite special forces. (See #AgentZo)
#ElżbietaZawacka, ‘Zo’, died on this day in 2009.
1 of the 1st women to serve in the frontline during #WW2, she was the only woman: in the elite Polish special forces, & to parachute from GB to German-occupied Poland.
Her extraordinary story is told in my book, #AgentZo.
1 of the 1st women to serve in the frontline during #WW2, she was the only woman: in the elite Polish special forces, & to parachute from GB to German-occupied Poland.
Her extraordinary story is told in my book, #AgentZo.
January 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
#ElżbietaZawacka, ‘Zo’, died on this day in 2009.
1 of the 1st women to serve in the frontline during #WW2, she was the only woman: in the elite Polish special forces, & to parachute from GB to German-occupied Poland.
Her extraordinary story is told in my book, #AgentZo.
1 of the 1st women to serve in the frontline during #WW2, she was the only woman: in the elite Polish special forces, & to parachute from GB to German-occupied Poland.
Her extraordinary story is told in my book, #AgentZo.
Beautiful Poznań in the rain 🌧️
I’ve just given a talk in the #Enigma #Cipher Centre at Poznań University where #Zo studied maths alongside #MarianRejewski, the man who first broke the German enigma system!
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#ElżbietaZawacka #Zo #AgentZo #AgentkaZo
I’ve just given a talk in the #Enigma #Cipher Centre at Poznań University where #Zo studied maths alongside #MarianRejewski, the man who first broke the German enigma system!
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#ElżbietaZawacka #Zo #AgentZo #AgentkaZo
October 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Beautiful Poznań in the rain 🌧️
I’ve just given a talk in the #Enigma #Cipher Centre at Poznań University where #Zo studied maths alongside #MarianRejewski, the man who first broke the German enigma system!
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#ElżbietaZawacka #Zo #AgentZo #AgentkaZo
I’ve just given a talk in the #Enigma #Cipher Centre at Poznań University where #Zo studied maths alongside #MarianRejewski, the man who first broke the German enigma system!
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#ElżbietaZawacka #Zo #AgentZo #AgentkaZo
Great to film a snippet before my event at Hereford Military History Festival today, talking about the extraordinary #ĖlzbietaZawacka aka #AgentZo !
September 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Great to film a snippet before my event at Hereford Military History Festival today, talking about the extraordinary #ĖlzbietaZawacka aka #AgentZo !
Honoured to lay the wreath to the elite Polish special forces #Cichociemni who trained at nearby #AudleyEndHouse during #WW2, before parachuting into enemy-occupied Europe.
I have been laying this wreath for 10 yrs, & this yr particularly remember #ElżbietaZawacka aka # Zo.
I have been laying this wreath for 10 yrs, & this yr particularly remember #ElżbietaZawacka aka # Zo.
November 10, 2024 at 11:52 AM
Honoured to lay the wreath to the elite Polish special forces #Cichociemni who trained at nearby #AudleyEndHouse during #WW2, before parachuting into enemy-occupied Europe.
I have been laying this wreath for 10 yrs, & this yr particularly remember #ElżbietaZawacka aka # Zo.
I have been laying this wreath for 10 yrs, & this yr particularly remember #ElżbietaZawacka aka # Zo.
After smuggling microfilm over almost 1000 miles of Nazi German-occupied Europe, Polish resistance fighter #ElżbietaZawacka aka #Zo reached #Gibraltar.
For her service she was honoured by Polish PM & CinC #GeneralSikorski.
So it is fitting to be talking abt her at the Gibraltar lit fest tomorrow!
For her service she was honoured by Polish PM & CinC #GeneralSikorski.
So it is fitting to be talking abt her at the Gibraltar lit fest tomorrow!
November 14, 2024 at 5:50 PM
After smuggling microfilm over almost 1000 miles of Nazi German-occupied Europe, Polish resistance fighter #ElżbietaZawacka aka #Zo reached #Gibraltar.
For her service she was honoured by Polish PM & CinC #GeneralSikorski.
So it is fitting to be talking abt her at the Gibraltar lit fest tomorrow!
For her service she was honoured by Polish PM & CinC #GeneralSikorski.
So it is fitting to be talking abt her at the Gibraltar lit fest tomorrow!
What cld be more touching than to be sent a pencil portrait of yr book subject?
This fabulous drawing of #ElżbietaZawacka, aka #AgentZo, entitled ‘The Only Woman Among the Silent Unseen’ (the Polish elite special forces in WW2) was sent to me by a Polish school girl today!
This fabulous drawing of #ElżbietaZawacka, aka #AgentZo, entitled ‘The Only Woman Among the Silent Unseen’ (the Polish elite special forces in WW2) was sent to me by a Polish school girl today!
December 21, 2024 at 5:39 PM
What cld be more touching than to be sent a pencil portrait of yr book subject?
This fabulous drawing of #ElżbietaZawacka, aka #AgentZo, entitled ‘The Only Woman Among the Silent Unseen’ (the Polish elite special forces in WW2) was sent to me by a Polish school girl today!
This fabulous drawing of #ElżbietaZawacka, aka #AgentZo, entitled ‘The Only Woman Among the Silent Unseen’ (the Polish elite special forces in WW2) was sent to me by a Polish school girl today!
In Sept 1943, #ElżbietaZawacka aka #Zo became the only woman to parachute from Britain to Nazi German occupied Poland, leaping from. British 4-engine Halifax bomber.
This evening…
This evening…
October 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
In Sept 1943, #ElżbietaZawacka aka #Zo became the only woman to parachute from Britain to Nazi German occupied Poland, leaping from. British 4-engine Halifax bomber.
This evening…
This evening…
Singing for my supper tonight… at the beautiful #UniversityWomensClub .
Wonderful to talk about 2WW heroine #ElżbietaZawacka aka #AgentZo in such a stunning setting…
& did I mention the secret room behind one bookcase in the library?
Wonderful to talk about 2WW heroine #ElżbietaZawacka aka #AgentZo in such a stunning setting…
& did I mention the secret room behind one bookcase in the library?
April 30, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Singing for my supper tonight… at the beautiful #UniversityWomensClub .
Wonderful to talk about 2WW heroine #ElżbietaZawacka aka #AgentZo in such a stunning setting…
& did I mention the secret room behind one bookcase in the library?
Wonderful to talk about 2WW heroine #ElżbietaZawacka aka #AgentZo in such a stunning setting…
& did I mention the secret room behind one bookcase in the library?
Wonderful to see this mural of her life; the 4-engine British Halifax bomber, her parachuting down, #BigBen in #London, her service as a clandestine courier for the resistance during the #SecondWorldWar, & later life still defiant!
#ElżbietaZawacka #AgentZo
#ElżbietaZawacka #AgentZo
October 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Wonderful to see this mural of her life; the 4-engine British Halifax bomber, her parachuting down, #BigBen in #London, her service as a clandestine courier for the resistance during the #SecondWorldWar, & later life still defiant!
#ElżbietaZawacka #AgentZo
#ElżbietaZawacka #AgentZo
2) #ElżbietaZawacka, an illustrated life by a Polish scout group named in her honour pays wonderful tribute to #AgentZo’s courage & achievements!
March 13, 2026 at 6:56 PM
2) #ElżbietaZawacka, an illustrated life by a Polish scout group named in her honour pays wonderful tribute to #AgentZo’s courage & achievements!