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D-Day Girls - The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win the Second World War (Paperback)
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D-Day Girls - The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win the Second World War (Paperback)
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The dramatic, untold story of the extraordinary women recruited by
Britain's elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory,
for fans of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE by Sonia Purnell 'Gripping:
Spies, romance, Gestapo thugs, blown-up trains, courage, and
treachery (lots of treachery) - and all of it true, all precisely
documented' ERIK LARSON, author of THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY 'The
mission is this: Read D-Day Girls today. Not just for the spy flair
but also because this history feels more relevant than ever, as an
army of women and girls again find themselves in a fight for the
common good' LILY KOPPEL, author of THE ASTRONAUT WIVES CLUB
'Thoroughly researched and written as smoothly as a good thriller,
this is a mesmerising story of creativity, perseverance, and
astonishing heroism' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, Starred review * * * 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 from demolition to sharpshoot ing. Their
job, he declared, was to 'set Europe ablaze'. But with most men on
the front lines, the SOE was forced to do something unprecedented:
recruit women. Thirty-nine answered the call, leaving their lives
and families to become saboteurs in France. In D-Day Girls, Sarah
Rose draws on recently de classified files, diaries, and oral
histories to tell the thrilling story of three of these remarkable
women. There's Andree Borrel, a scrappy and streetwise Parisian who
blew up power lines with the Gestapo hot on her heels; Odette
Sansom, an unhappily married suburban mother who saw the SOE as her
ticket out of domestic life and into a meaningful adventure; and
Lise de Baissac, a fiercely independent member of French colonial
high society and the SOE's unflap pable 'queen'. Together, they
destroyed train lines, ambushed Nazis, plotted prison breaks, and
gathered crucial intelligence-laying the groundwork for the D-Day
invasion that proved to be the turning point in the war. Rigorously
researched and written with razor-sharp wit, D-Day Girls is an
inspiring story for our own moment of resistance: a reminder of
what courage-and the energy of politically animated women-can
accomplish when the stakes seem incalculably high.
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