D-Day Girls
The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win the Second World War
$26.00
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
12 May 2020
Summary
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 fo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780751578270 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0751578274 |
| Author: | Sarah Rose |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Sphere |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 12 May 2020 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 124mm x 28mm |
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Compelling - these under-reported stories of fearless and principled women will provide inspiration - Booklist
With skill and heart, Sarah Rose captures the adventures of an extraordinary group of women who kept the resistance alive during the darkest days of World War II, risking everything to liberate their loved ones, their nations, and democracy itself. I couldn’t stop reading - Jason Fagone, Author of The Woman Who Smashed CodesRose delivers a swift moving … expert blow-by-blow account … A spy thriller that fights against the idea of “the original sin of women at war” - Kirkus ReviewsDaring, modern, and gorgeously written … This is the D-Day book the world has been waiting for - Karen Abbott, Author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, SpySarah Rose’s D-Day Girls is … a page-turning spy story that will, at long last, inscribe the names of three remarkable female spies-Andree Borrel, Odette Sansom, Lise de Baissac-into our history books - Susannah Cahalan, Author of Brain on FireA fresh, thrilling account of the female spies whose courage and audacity helped win the day on June 6, 1944 - Alex Kershaw, Author of the Bedford Boys and Avenue of SpiesAbout The Author
Sarah Rose
Sarah Rose is the author of For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World’s Favorite Drink and Changed History. She has written for the Wall Street Journal, Outside, The Saturday Evening Post, and Men’s Journal. In 2014, she was awarded a Lowell Thomas Prize in Travel Writing.
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