These 5 female spies helped win World War II. Meet some of the women who risked their lives for the Allied cause—including renowned dancer Josephine Baker, who used her star power to help the ...

In her book, "D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II," Rose chronicles three of these agents' contributions to the Allied victory in ...

Reuben Peiss, a Harvard University librarian, was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services — the first U.S. intelligence agency — at the start of World War II, which lasted from 1939 to 1945.

Telling the stories of influential women war spies from Maryland 02:44. BALTIMORE -- From the Civil War to World War II and beyond, there's a long line of lady spies who came from Maryland, women ...

Meet the women who were the "secret weapon" that won the war and changed the world in the process. Meet the American women who built the planes and flew them, fought on the warfront and the home ...

The book stresses the many women, too often overlooked in popular history, ... How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II. By Elyse Graham. Ecco. 376 pp. $30.

Andrée Borrel was the first female SOE agent to parachute into France during World War II, but her jumping partner, 37-year-old Lise de Baissac, was right behind her.

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 ...

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 ...