IN CASE PEGGY CARTER FANS WANT TO READ ABOUT LADY SPIES:

IN CASE PEGGY CARTER FANS WANT TO READ ABOUT LADY SPIES:

Or anyone else wants to, for that matter. Here are some places to start:

Vera Atkins

Nancy “White Mouse” Wake

Noor Inayat Khan

Violette Szabo

Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne

Yolande Beekman

Cecile Pearl Witherington

Krystyna Skarbek aka Christine Granville

Odette Sansom Hallowes

Lise de Baissac

Andree Borrel

Eliane Plewman

Madeleine Damerment

Diana Rowden

Vera Leigh

Just a few of the women who worked for the SOE, the OSS, and other organizations during WWII. 

Many of their lives are short and tragic. Khan, Damerment, Plewman, and Beekman were executed at Dachau. Vera Leigh died in the Natzwiler-Struthof concentration camp alongside Rowden and Borrel. Christine Granville made it through the war, but was denied post-war field service opportunities, granted civil rather than military honors, refused naturalization papers by the British government, and was finally murdered by a stalker in 1952. Others lived full, long lives, adjusting to the world after the War as best they could, though the jobs they’d done so well were stripped away.

These are the heroes Peggy Carter was fashioned to represent. So, you know. Remember the real thing while supporting their fictional avatar.