The book, Young, Brave, and Beautiful, is about two missions in occupied France by Violette Szabo, a member of the Special Operations Executive formed by Winston Churchill to fan the flames of resistance in enemy-occupied countries. Although she completed her first mission successfully, Violette was captured by the Germans shortly after the start of her second mission. Despite imprisonment and torture, she did not betray any of Resistance plans or personnel. She was executed early in 1945. Her story was popularised in the book and in the 1958 film Carve Her Name with Pride, starring Virginia McKenna.
