The Last Secret Agent is the remarkable true story of Kiwi Phyllis ‘Pippa’ Latour, an undercover spy during WWII and the last of 430 special operations agents who worked in occupied France to pass away.
Making her story even more compelling, for almost 70 years, Pippa told no one – not even her family – about her incredible feats during the war. When her achievements were revealed, she was awarded France’s highest military decoration.
Before her death at 102 she told her story to award-winning documentary producer and WWI and WWII specialist Jude Dobson, in a book that has since become an international bestseller. Jude joins Emile Donovan in conversation to recount a clandestine life, and the process of being entrusted to tell it.
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