From age 7 to 15, which covered the last four years of the Second World War (1941–45), she danced in working men's club circuits for 15 shillings a time as "Baby Eileen". [4] During the war, she performed as well at London's Stage Door canteen for American troops and sang songs like "Yankee Doodle." At one time she was attending dance class ...

When she was five years old, World War II broke out, forcing her mother to ship off her children - as most parents were wont to do during the war - to the countryside village of nearby Little...

Vera May Atkins CBE (15 June 1908 – 24 June 2000) [1] was a Romanian-born British intelligence officer who worked in the France Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) from 1941 to 1945 during the Second World War.

From age 7 to 15, which covered the last four years of WW2, she danced in local working men’s clubs as "Baby Eileen". Another of our contacts, Sheila Brimmer (nee Frost), went to the same dance school as Eileen in Tottenham and kindly sent …

The story is about English expatriates living in Italy at the beginning of World War II. Dame Dench recalls, “After a day of shooting, we would drink a whole bottle of Procecco and then try to find our hotel rooms.” Dame Eileen Atkins enjoying an amusing …

Feb 15, 1998 · Atkins, 63, the co-creator of the TV series “Upstairs, Downstairs” and “The House of Eliott,” adapted and read Woolf’s diaries for a five-part BBC radio series. Her most recent...

Vera Atkins is a name that is largely unknown to the general public, yet she was a British Intelligence officer and a key Special Operations Executive (SOE) figure during World War II. Mainly orchestrating covert missions and managing a network of spies, Vera operated in the shadows — her life cloaked in secrecy.

British intelligence agent Vera Atkins (1908-2000), as principal assistant in Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) secret service, administered some of the most sensitive secret operations carried out by Allied forces during World War II.

Sep 14, 2005 · A biography of Vera Atkins, the woman who supervised SOE British secret agents during World War II. Their mission was to infiltrate Nazi occupied France, aid the French resistance, and prepare for D-Day.

Let’s dive a little deeper into some inspirational female spies who made a huge difference in World War II. 1. Vera Atkins. Romanian-born Vera Atkins worked in the France Section of the SOE (the Special Operations Executive) in the Second World War.