The dramatic, untold true story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain\'s elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory in World War II "Gripping. thoroughly researched and written as smoothly as a good thriller, this is a mesmerizing story of creativity, perseverance, and astonishing heroism."--Publishe. . . a] thriller in the form of a non-fiction book."--Refinery29 "Gripping history . . .
Praise for D-Day Girls "Rigorously researched .
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.
There\'s Andr e 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.
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.
Thirty-nine answered the call, leaving their lives and families to become saboteurs in France.
To "set Europe ablaze," in the words of Winston Churchill, the Special Operations Executive (SOE) was forced to do something unprecedented: recruit women as spies.
Spies, romance, Gestapo thugs, blown-up trains, courage, and treachery (lots of treachery)--and all of it true."--Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake In 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was on the front lines.
The dramatic, untold true story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain\'s elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory in World War II "Gripping
