Pauline parachuted in 1943:
the life of an SOE agent

Pearl Cornioley, born Witherington, voluntarily joined a British secret service at twenty-nine: the French section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), to help the resistance in France. She was parachuted into Indre in September 1943. After clandestine work that lasted until the landing, "Pauline" founded and led a maquis of 1,500 men.
This is a particularly vivid description of the Resistance, with a thousand everyday details, not forgetting the intense moments when death brushed against life.
A shadow heroine, Pearl Cornioley had never agreed to tell her life story, out of modesty and fear that her testimony would be romanticized. She took the step thinking of today's youth who too often despair.
By entrusting them with this faithful and precise testimony, Lieutenant Pauline wanted to encourage them to believe in their destiny, just as she believed in hers when she parachuted into the night.