Madame Fourcade's secret war : the daring young woman who led France's largest spy network against Hitler / Lynne Olson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Random House, [2019]Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], 2019Edition: First editionDescription: pages cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • General
ISBN:
  • 9780812994766
Other title:
  • Daring young woman who led France's largest spy network against Hitler
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.54/8644092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • D810.S8 O4765 2019
Contents:
Prologue, 1936-1942 -- Leaping into the unknown -- The chaos of defeat -- Fighting back -- Spying in Marseille -- The birth of alliance -- Danger in Paris -- Taking command -- A network in peril -- The mailbag -- The return of Leon Faye -- A game of wits -- "An undisputed leader" -- "Sitting on a barrel of gunpowder" -- The traitor -- A general escapes -- Captured -- Operation Attila -- "Down go the U-boats" -- 1943-1944 -- On the run -- The tinderbox of Lyon -- High anxiety -- "Here you are at last!" -- "The most remarkable girl of her generation" -- Pink heather -- Calamity -- Captives -- The map -- Going home -- 1944-1945 -- Caught in the net -- Liberation and beyond -- "Hail Mary, full of grace" -- The road to Gethsemane -- Epilogue.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue, 1936-1942 -- Leaping into the unknown -- The chaos of defeat -- Fighting back -- Spying in Marseille -- The birth of alliance -- Danger in Paris -- Taking command -- A network in peril -- The mailbag -- The return of Leon Faye -- A game of wits -- "An undisputed leader" -- "Sitting on a barrel of gunpowder" -- The traitor -- A general escapes -- Captured -- Operation Attila -- "Down go the U-boats" -- 1943-1944 -- On the run -- The tinderbox of Lyon -- High anxiety -- "Here you are at last!" -- "The most remarkable girl of her generation" -- Pink heather -- Calamity -- Captives -- The map -- Going home -- 1944-1945 -- Caught in the net -- Liberation and beyond -- "Hail Mary, full of grace" -- The road to Gethsemane -- Epilogue.

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