Huge congratulations to the loveliest #MarinaPalmer aka @imogenrobertson.bsky.social on the publication of #TheLastRetreat! Great night at Bermondsey’s #BootandFlogger as we hit #London from #Passau at 100mph!…
Clare Mulley
@claremulley.bsky.social
Author of The #SpyWhoLoved (freedom), #WomenWhoFlewForHitler (but ended their lives on opposite sides of history), #WomanWhoSavedTheChildren (but didn’t like them much). #AgentZo (what a hero).
Róża (Różyczka) Goździewska served as a nurse during the #warsawuprising when she was 8 years old, bringing water to the wounded in a field hospital, 82 years ago (Aug-Oct 1944). Her father had been killed by the Gestapo the year before, & she served alongside a 19yo cousin.
Great book, remarkable woman.
Clare Mulley@claremulley.bsky.social · 3d agoHer photo was taken by the noted photographer #EugeniuszLokajski, aka ‘Brok’, who was killed a month later. Róża & her sister survived, & she died when living in France aged 59. The story of the Warsaw Uprising is told in my book #agentzo .
Róża (Różyczka) Goździewska served as a nurse during the #warsawuprising when she was 8 years old, bringing water to the wounded in a field hospital, 82 years ago (Aug-Oct 1944). Her father had been killed by the Gestapo the year before, & she served alongside a 19yo cousin.
A little bit of side-eye here! Great fun recording @historyhits.bsky.social ‘s #AfterDark pod with the excellent @maddypelling.bsky.social & @anthonydelaney.bsky.social … 1/2
A little bit of side-eye here! Great fun recording @historyhits.bsky.social ‘s #AfterDark pod with the excellent @maddypelling.bsky.social & @anthonydelaney.bsky.social … 1/2
Deckchair break at @bletchleypark.bsky.social in between giving 2, hour-long, talks in the old ballroom to a great audience, & recording a pod, at the first #BletchleyPark Polish Codebreakers Festival… Wonderful to see a #Dakota fly past the house!
I’ll be telling this history at the @wehaveways.bsky.social fest, 11 Sept. If you can’t make it… there’s always the paperback!
Every 20 July, I think abt the attempt to assassinate Hitler OTD 1944. #ClausVonStauffenberg who courageously placed the bomb, was shot the next day. He has bn rightly honoured. #TheWomenWhoFlewForHitler tells the story of Melitta von Stauffenberg, whose diaries reveal another extraordinary story…
Every 20 July, I think abt the attempt to assassinate Hitler OTD 1944. #ClausVonStauffenberg who courageously placed the bomb, was shot the next day. He has bn rightly honoured. #TheWomenWhoFlewForHitler tells the story of Melitta von Stauffenberg, whose diaries reveal another extraordinary story…
Peak Gladiator season again… Beautiful fields of grain, ripe blackberries in the hedgerows, kitchen smelling of pie... Except that it’s only July 🌞🌞😧🔥
Talking with lovely Tania Szabó, daughter of Second World War heroes Violette and Étienne, as the sun went down last night…
Talking with lovely Tania Szabó, daughter of Second World War heroes Violette and Étienne, as the sun went down last night…
This afternoon I was privileged to speak at the annual #VioletteSzabò memorial picnic in Hereford, organised by Violette’s cousin Rosemary. Incredibly moving to hear Violette’s daughter, Tania, recite the famous poem, ‘The Life That I Have’, and talk about her courageous father Ètienne.
A privilege to speak at the #PolishAirForce day at the bofbbunker with #AlinaNowobilska & #JennyGrant , both of whom I greatly admire, ably chaired by #PhoebeStyle. Also heard #GeorgeDziedzic’s excellent talk on his parents’ extraordinary wartime lives & service - see his book #TwoPathsOneWar.
Park under the #Hurricane they said! Great to be at the #BattleofBritainBunker for the Polish Air Force day today!
The day after we saw the Lysander at the NASM Udvar-Hazy Center @claremulley.bsky.social posted this amazing ITV News video about the plane and its role at Newmarket field where #SOE agents in #WW2 left for their perilous and often deadly missions in occupied France. Gorgeous flight footage.
Clare Mulley@claremulley.bsky.social · 4w agoFabulous ITV News coverage of the commemoration of the role played by Newmarket Racecourse as an #RAF Special Duties airfield during #WW2. It was a privilege to be there for the unveiling of the plaque & info board, & to see this glorious #Lysander visit! youtu.be/MKlE-wjujT4?...
Fabulous ITV News coverage of the commemoration of the role played by Newmarket Racecourse as an #RAF Special Duties airfield during #WW2. It was a privilege to be there for the unveiling of the plaque & info board, & to see this glorious #Lysander visit! youtu.be/MKlE-wjujT4?...
Newmarket’s Secret War: The Return of the Westland Lysander
YouTube video by The Jockey Club
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On parachuting back to France, to serve as a courier, she was captured on 29 February 1943. Madeleine Damerment was executed, alongside 3 other female Special Agents, at Dachau on 13 Sept that year.
Happy birthday to the only woman in Chiswick who knows how to use a Sten gun. #PatOwtram, 103 today, served at a Y station (wireless intercept) during #WW2, received the #LegionDHonneur, later devised #AskTheFamily for tv, wrote her memoirs #CenturySisters …
Wonderful to celebrate the 10th anniversary of my local bookshop Max Shorter with the fabulous @jojomoyes.bsky.social , Max, all the team, & half the town! Here’s to the next decade #HartsBooks! 🥂📚📚
Wonderful to celebrate the 10th anniversary of my local bookshop Max Shorter with the fabulous @jojomoyes.bsky.social , Max, all the team, & half the town! Here’s to the next decade #HartsBooks! 🥂📚📚
Two talks in a prison today. It’s great to support this excellent welfare programme. Fascinating questions from inside today.
Two talks in a prison today. It’s great to support this excellent welfare programme. Fascinating questions from inside today.
Murdered #OTD 1952. Britain’s longest serving 2WW agent, male or female, & among the highest achieving: Polish born #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville, #TheSpyWhoLoved. Never forgotten.
Murdered #OTD 1952. Britain’s longest serving 2WW agent, male or female, & among the highest achieving: Polish born #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville, #TheSpyWhoLoved. Never forgotten.
Writing is a solitary act, but… celebrating great writing isn’t :) Brilliant eve at the #WomensPrize with founder #KateMosse & many book-lovers :) Huge congrats to #LyseDoucet: #thefinesthotelinkabul , & Virginia Evans: #thecorrespondent . Thank you all 📖📗📙📕📚
Writing is a solitary act, but… celebrating great writing isn’t :) Brilliant eve at the #WomensPrize with founder #KateMosse & many book-lovers :) Huge congrats to #LyseDoucet: #thefinesthotelinkabul , & Virginia Evans: #thecorrespondent . Thank you all 📖📗📙📕📚