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A riveting story of World War II and the courage of one young woman as she is drafted into Churchill’s overseas spy network, aiding the French Resistance behind enemy lines and working to liberate Nazi-occupied Paris…
London, 1941: In a cramped bunker in Winston Churchill’s Cabinet War Rooms, underneath Westminster’s…
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This one I listened to. I normally read.
A story of one young woman drafted into Churchill’s overseas spy network, aiding the French Resistance behind enemy lines and working to liberate Nazi-occupied Paris. London, 1941: Due to Rose Teasdale’s fluency in French, she is recruited for the Special Operations Executive, a secret British organization that conducts espionage in Nazi-occupied Europe.
Rose parachutes into France with a new codename: Dragonfly. Posing as a cosmetics saleswoman in Paris, she ferries messages to and from the Resistance. (Of course, typically in fiction,) she falls for a French Resistance fighter who has also dedicated…
From Susan's list on women spies and ‘lost libraries’ of World War II.
Rose Teasdale is a young British woman in Churchill’s typing pool and Lazare Aron is a Jewish French Resistance fighter. They make for great company in this World War II spy novel.
When Rose is selected for the Special Operations Executive, a secret British espionage group, she is literally dropped behind enemy lines and into Lazare’s arms. Hlad is a meticulous researcher and elegantly incorporates the true history of Operation Jericho—an RAF bombing on a Nazi-held French prison near the end of the War—into a compelling love story.
I listened to the audiobook version of Churchill’s Secret Messenger while walking…
From Anna's list on historical stories with interfaith love stories.
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