Nancy Wake: A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine 1912-2011 by Peter FitzSimons
The gripping true story of the woman who became the Gestapo's most wanted spy
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 naïve, 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, organising Allied parachute drops, cycling four hundred kilometres 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.
Format: Paperback | 310 pages
Dimensions (cm): 19.5 x 12.7 x 2.7 | 526g -
Publication Date: 21 Aug 2002
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication City/Country: Pymble, SYD, Australia
Language: English
Illustrations note: b&w illustrations
ISBN10: 0732269199
ISBN13: 9780732274566
Condition: Good
A vintage book that has been read but is in good condition. Some minor damage to the cover including minor scuff marks and minor creasing along the edges, but no holes or tears. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing, and a rectangular chunk (blank) cut out from the top-right corner of the first page, but no other tearing. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text and no writing in margins. No missing pages.