'Carve her name with pride' is a book (and film) about which World War II heroine?
Carve Her Name with Pride Carve Her Name with Pride Carve Her Name with Pride is a 1958 British war drama film based on the book of the same name by R.J. Minney. The film, directed by Lewis Gilbert, is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive agent Violette Szabo, GC, who was captured and executed while serving in Nazi-occupied France. Szabo was played by Virginia McKenna. Violette Bushell is a young woman whose father is English and mother is French, living in London early in the Second World War. She meets French Army officer Etienne Szabo, stationed in the city, and they
Carve Her Name with Pride especially for the film, but was in fact the actual code poem given to her in March 1944 by the SOE cryptographer Leo Marks, and written by him on Christmas Eve 1943 in memory of his girlfriend, Ruth, who had recently died in a plane crash. Marks, who became a scriptwriter after the war, would only let the poem be used on condition that his authorship was not revealed. Carve Her Name with Pride Carve Her Name with Pride is a 1958 British war drama film based on the book of the same name by R.J. Minney. The film, directed