- Title:
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Nancy Wake
- Written by:
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Peter FitzSimons
- Read by:
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Stephanie Daniel
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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9
- Duration:
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11 hours 19 minutes
- Published:
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March 01 2010
- Available Date:
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March 01 2010
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781742333304
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Australian; World War II
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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A biography of our greatest war heroine.
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 naive, 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.
"Everyone should read it."
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