Book description
She risked everything for her country, but now she's fighting for her life.
A gripping tale of love and espionage in Occupied France, based on true events.
February 1933: When her aunt gifts her two hundred pounds, twenty-year-old Nancy Wake embarks on a world cruise. Afterwards, she becomes a journalist…
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Nancy Wake’s story is that of a true heroine. I was captivated by it when I first read about it years ago while researching the SOE for my own novels. Already in the opening chapters, I was riveted.
I could fully identify with Nancy’s urge for adventure and world travel: she left her home country, Australia, for England and France at a very young age, just as I had left Guyana, South America, for India and Europe in my early twenties.
Like Pearl Witherington, Nancy was recruited as an SOE agent and dropped into France to work clandestinely as an…
From Sharon's list on World War 2 SOE heroines in France.
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