She jumped into Nazi-occupied France with a pistol, a parachute, and nerves of steel. Lise de Baissac was one of the first female agents of the British Special Operations Executive, the secret network Winston Churchill called the “Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.” Her mission was to gather intelligence, organize sabotage, and prepare the French Resistance for the D-Day landings, all while pretending to be an archaeologist studying ruins. Born in Mauritius in 1905, Lise moved to London before t