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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xvi, 301 pages, [8] plates ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of Juan Pujol, a poultry farmer who opposed the Nazis and concocted a series of staggering lies that lead to his becoming one of Germany's most valued spies, while actually acting as a double-agent for the Allies.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent command across France: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." This spy was Virginia Hall, a young American woman--rejected from the foreign service because of her gender and her prosthetic leg--who talked her way into the spy organization dubbed Churchill's "ministry of...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1941 a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman became the leader of a vast intelligence organization--the only woman to serve as a chef de resistance during the war. Strong-willed, independent, and a lifelong rebel against her country's conservative, patriarchal society, Marie-Madeleine Fourcade was temperamentally made for the job. Her group's name was Alliance, but the Gestapo dubbed it Noah's Ark because its agents used the names of animals as their...