Agent Zo – Wins Polish Foreign Ministry Award

We’re so pleased to congratulate author Clare Mulley! Her book Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka was awarded the Polish Foreign Ministry’s Best History Book by a Foreign Author for 2024/25! The award was presented to Ms. Mulley by Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Radisław Sikorski at a ceremony held at the Foreign Ministry in Warsaw in early December.

Ms. Mulley said: “Such a joy and an honour to receive this award, and all credit to Brig. Gen. Elżbieta Zawacka and all those who served so courageously for democratic freedoms, and whose stories I’ve tried to tell.”

Agent Zo is the incredible story of Elżbieta Zawacka — the World War II female resistance fighter whose nom de guerre was ‘Zo’ — told here for the very first time. Agent Zo was the only female emissary of the Polish Home Army command to reach London from Warsaw during the war. In Britain, she became the only woman to join the elite Polish Special Forces, the Cichociemni (aka the Unseen & Silent), affiliated with British Special Operations Executive (SOE).

A short video excerpt from Ms. Mulley’s acceptance speech, from her Facebook page:

Check out our prior posts about Agent Zo on its first publication in England, and the terrific review in the Wall St Journal.