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DDay Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II,Used
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The dramatic, untold history of the heroic women recruited by Britains elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory in World War IIGripping. Spies, romance, Gestapo thugs, blownup trains, courage, and treachery (lots of treachery)and all of it true.Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City and Dead WakeIn 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was on the front lines. To set Europe ablaze, in the words of Winston Churchill, the Special Operations Executive (SOE), whose spies were trained in everything from demolition to sharpshooting, was forced to do something unprecedented: recruit women. Thirtynine answered the call, leaving their lives and families to become saboteurs in France.In DDay Girls, Sarah Rose draws on recently declassified files, diaries, and oral histories to tell the thrilling story of three of these remarkable women. Theres Andre 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 SOEs unflappable queen. Together, they destroyed train lines, ambushed Nazis, plotted prison breaks, and gathered crucial intelligencelaying the groundwork for the DDay invasion that proved to be the turning point in the war.Rigorously researched and written with razorsharp wit, DDay Girls is an inspiring story for our own moment of resistance: a reminder of what courageand the energy of politically animated womencan accomplish when the stakes seem incalculably high.Praise for DDay GirlsRigorously researched . . . [a] thriller in the form of a nonfiction book.Refinery29Equal parts espionageromance thriller and historical narrative, DDay Girls traces the lives and secret activities of the 39 women who answered the call to infiltrate France. . . . While chronicling the James Bondworthy missions and love affairs of these women, Rose vividly captures the broken landscape of war.The Washington PostGripping history . . . thoroughly researched and written as smoothly as a good thriller, this is a mesmerizing story of creativity, perseverance, and astonishing heroism.Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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