Madame Fourcade's secret war : the daring young woman who led France's largest spy network against Hitler
Record details
- ISBN: 9780812994773
- ISBN: 0812994779
- ISBN: 9780812994766
- ISBN: 0812994760
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (xxiv, 428 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits. - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2019]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [387]-405) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 Léon 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. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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