Chapter 55 postscript

"Women are not generally used as organizers of sabotage behind enemy lines, but highly trained British intelligence agent Pearl Witherington captured the Maquis in the Gestapo, the French partisans who resisted the Germans in World War II took over the leadership of .. after leading 2,000 resistance members bravely and brilliantly in active campaigns against the enemy. She was strongly recommended for the Military Cross, but as such it was not appropriate for women and was not She was granted an OBE, and she returned it, arguing that what she had done was not at all a clerical affair."

- MRD Ford "Special Operations in France" Ford (MRDFoot), British intelligence historian.The book was published by the Royal Clerk in 1966.