Overview
āGripping. Spies, romance, Gestapo thugs, blown-up trains, courage, and treachery (lots of treachery)āand all of it true.āāErik Larson, author ofĀ The Devil in the White CityĀ andĀ Dead Wake
In 1942,Ā the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England wasĀ on the front lines. To āset Europe ablaze,ā in the words of Winston Churchill, the Special Operations Executive (SOE) was forced to do something unprecedented: recruit women as spies.Ā Thirty-nine answered the call, leaving their lives and families to become saboteurs in France.
InĀ D-Day Girls, Sarah Rose draws on recently deĀclassified files, diaries, and oral histories to tell the thrilling story of three of these remarkable women. Thereās AndrĆ©e Borrel, a scrappy and streetwise Parisian who blew up power lines with the Gestapo hot on her heels; Odette Sansom, an unhappily married suburban mother who saw the SOE as her ticket out of domestic life and into a meaningful adventure; and Lise de Baissac, a fiercely independent member of French colonial high society and the SOEās unflapĀpable āqueen.ā Together, they destroyed train lines, ambushed Nazis, plotted prison breaks, and gathered crucial intelligenceālaying the groundwork for the D-Day invasion that proved to be the turning point in the war.
Rigorously researched and written with razor-sharp wit,Ā D-Day GirlsĀ is an inspiring story for our own moment of resistance: a reminder of what courageāand the energy of politically animated womenācan accomplish when the stakes seem incalculably high.
Praise forĀ D-Day Girls
āRigorously researched . . . [a] thriller in the form of a non-fiction book.āāRefinery29
āEqual parts espionage-romance thriller and historical narrative,Ā D-Day GirlsĀ traces the lives and secret activities of the 39 women who answered the call to infiltrate France. . . . While chronicling the James Bond-worthy missions and love affairs of these women, Rose vividly captures the broken landscape of war.āāTheĀ Washington Post
āGripping history . . . thoroughly researched and written as smoothly as a good thriller, this is a mesmerizing story of creativity, perseverance, and astonishing heroism.āāPublishers WeeklyĀ (starred review)
This book title, D-Day Girls (The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II), ISBN: 9780451495099, by Sarah Rose, published by Crown/Archetype (March 17, 2020) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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