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Sheryl Green, BA (Combd. Hons), PGCE, MA, is an experienced public speaker who specialises in providing Illustrated talks on the Allied intelligence agents during WW2 and the RAF Squadrons which served them.

Sharing her passionate admiration for the remarkable men and women who worked as Intelligence and Special Operations agents, Sheryl's aim is to promote their oral history and highlight their courageous stories, which she believes are astounding and moving. Some were destined to become household names, but, she believes, all deserve our deepest reverence for their courage and determination to combat and defeat Nazism, whatever the cost to themselves. Their contribution to the successful outcome of the crucial landings in Normandy on D-Day deserves and has received recognition but while the focus of the talks Sheryl currently provides is primarily on the work in France, it should always be remembered that agents of all nationalities were risking their lives in occupied territories across the world in the global battle for democracy and the defeat of tyranny.

The title of this website "Courage in Disguise" refers to the bravery demonstrated by the men and women who led a clandestine and often lonely life, under a false identity, constantly on their guard against betrayal or a lapse in concentration or safety protocols which would lead not just to their own capture but potentially the unravelling of their entire network with terrible consequences for their co-conspirators. Sworn to absolute secrecy during the war and mindful of having signed the Official Secrets Act, these remarkable patriots (the ones who survived their activities) often went to their graves without ever telling even their closest loved ones just what they had achieved. So, long after the war's end, they continued to disguise their courage and to present themselves as unassuming and unremarkable citizens. This modesty is as much a hallmark of their character as their courage.

Over recent years, as more and more of the personal files held at The National Archives have been opened for public scrutiny a plethora of books and articles have been published. Sheryl is immensely grateful to the authors who through their painstaking research make this part of history available to all of us and so is careful throughout her talks to acknowledge the source of the knowledge on which her talks are based, as well as providing a reading list to encourage members of her audience to delve further into this aspect of the history of World War Two for themselves.