The last woman of Churchill’s Secret Army: The spy who outsmarted the Reich and kept her secret for 50 years
Phyllis “Pippa” Latour Doyle, the last surviving female spy of Churchill’s Special Operations Executive, died in 2023 aged 102. Two years on, her story resurfaces as a timeless portrait of quiet heroism, a young woman who parachuted into Nazi-occupied France, outwitted the Gestapo, and changed the course of D-Day, only to keep silent for half a century.
Phyllis “Pippa” Latour Doyle, the last surviving female spy of Churchill’s Special Operations Executive, died in 2023 aged 102. Two years on, her story resurfaces as a timeless portrait of quiet heroism, a young woman who parachuted into Nazi-occupied France, outwitted the Gestapo, and changed the course of D-Day, only to keep silent for half a century.
