Turns out, she was a spy during World War II. Her alias: Agent Rose. "Eileen Nearne was one of only ... Sarah Helm, the author of A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII ...

Writer Steven Knight has said that his new film, Allied, is based on a story about World War II spies that he heard ... the trajectory of the war. Vera Atkins was a young Romanian working in ...

had the same feeling,” said Atkins in an oral testimony included in the 2008 book Forgotten Voices of The Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations During the Second World War.