D-Day girls : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II /
In 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable and every able man in England was fighting. Believing that Britain was locked in an existential battle, Winston Churchill had already created a secret agency, the Special Operations Executive (SOE), whose spies were trained in everything fr...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Crown,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. God help us ; Ungentlemanly warfare ; A first class agent ; The queen of the organization ; Merde alors! ; To the very last man
- Part II. A thousand dangers ; The dark years ; Alone in the world ; Robert est arrivé ; The Paris of the Sahara ; Our possibilities ; The demolition must never fail ; An obstinate woman ; An endless Calvary ; The swap ; The dog sneezed on the curtains ; Hunted ; When the hour of action strikes
- Part III. Kisses ; A patriotic profession ; A little braver ; The sighing begins ; Death on one side, life on the other ; Your mind goes on thinking
- Epilogue: a useful life.