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'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.' (Publication summary)
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Book Review – Nancy Wake by Peter FitzSimons
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Booklover Book Reviews 2013;
— Review of Nancy Wake : A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine 2001 single work biography -
Hedonism, Happenstance, Honour and Heroism
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Dotlit : The Online Journal of Creative Writing , November vol. 4 no. 2 2003;
— Review of Nancy Wake : A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine 2001 single work biography
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Hedonism, Happenstance, Honour and Heroism
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Dotlit : The Online Journal of Creative Writing , November vol. 4 no. 2 2003;
— Review of Nancy Wake : A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine 2001 single work biography -
Book Review – Nancy Wake by Peter FitzSimons
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Booklover Book Reviews 2013;
— Review of Nancy Wake : A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine 2001 single work biography
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cEngland,ccUnited Kingdom (UK),cWestern Europe, Europe,
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cFrance,cWestern Europe, Europe,
- 1939-1945