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Krystyna Skarbek – SOE Agent

published on January 27, 2014 by Mike Categories: General Rambling #Tagged: Krystyna Skarbek, SOE, Spying, World War 2

Really interesting piece on the life of Krystyna Skarbek who was a Polish born SOE agent during the second world war.

She worked as an agent in Poland, Hungary, Cairo & France. She was awarded the an OBE, a George Medal and many others for her work behind enemy lines.  At the end of the war, a few weeks after Armistice day she was given a months pay and dismissed from the service, she was in Cairo, SOE didn’t even make arrangements to get her back to England.

Krystyna Skarbek – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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