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...

Documents the story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to sabotage the Nazis and help pave the way for Allied victory during World War II.