Violette Szabo was only 23 when she entered Nazi-occupied France as an SOE agent. Fluent, fearless, and carrying weapons and codes across enemy territory, she helped knit together Resistance networks that paved the way for D-Day. On her second mission she held off German troops alone with a Sten gun so her team could escape, fighting until the last round. Captured, tortured, and unbroken, she refused to give up a single name. She was executed at Ravensbrück in early 1945. Britain later awarded h