Pearl Witherington Cornioley joined the Special Operations Executive in 1943 and worked with the French Resistance as an undercover courier and later, under the code name 'Pauline,' as a network leader of 3,500 men. She was instrumental in the carrying out of numerous acts of sabotage during World War II.

Books by Pearl Witherington Cornioley

Code Name Pauline: Memoirs of a World War II Special Agent (Women of Action)

written by Pearl Witherington Cornioley edited by Kathryn J. Atwood - History, Nonfiction, Women's History