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Nancy Wake

Nancy Wake

A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine

by Peter Fitzsimons
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 16/09/2014

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In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a naive, young journalist, Nancy Wake witnessed a horrific scene of Nazi violence in a Viennese street. From that moment, she declared that she would do everything in her power to rid Europe of the Nazis.



What began as a courier job here and there became a highly successful escape network for Allied soldiers, perfectly camouflaged by Nancy's high-society life in Marseille. Her network was soon so successful-and so notorious-that she was forced to flee France to escape the Gestapo, who had dubbed her "the white mouse" for her knack of slipping through its traps.



But Nancy was a passionate enemy of the Nazis and refused to stay away. Supplying weapons and training members of a powerful underground fighting force, organizing Allied parachute drops, cycling four hundred kilometers across a mountain range to find a new transmitting radio-nothing seemed too difficult in her fight against the Nazis. Peter FitzSimons reveals Nancy Wake's compelling story, a tale of an ordinary woman doing extraordinary things.
ISBN:
9781486219605
9781486219605
Category:
Second World War
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
16-09-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bolinda Audio
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
171x133x13mm
Weight:
0.09kg

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