"D-Day Girls" Topic

""Gripping. Spies, romance, Gestapo thugs, blown-up trains, courage, and treachery (lots of treachery)—and all of it true."—Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake

In 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was on the front lines. To "set Europe ablaze," in the words of Winston Churchill, the Special Operations Executive (SOE) was forced to do something unprecedented: recruit women as spies. Thirty-nine answered the call, leaving their lives and families to become saboteurs in France…"
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Amicalement
Armand

I have a copy but it's yet to be read. So many books, so little time…

(smile)

Amicalement
Armand

From the reading sample / excerpt available on the link:

The children of the interwar years came of age in a wounded Europe, still bleeding from the sores of Flanders and the Somme. France felt crippled by German brutality; Germany felt likewise about her neighbors' punitive reparations. Fatherless Odette was raised in her grandparents' house, her Sundays a litany of mandatory graveside visits and church offerings beside her widowed mother. As with so many daughters of the Great War, trauma altered Odette; it made her at once sweet and hard, vulnerable and ferocious.

Seems to be a very engaging read.

Also provides some perspective on how the average European might have viewed the world, when we discuss the hows and whys in other threads, such as the current "appeasement" topic.

And it's available as an e-book from Amazon.

What's not to like?

-Mark
(aka: Mk 1)

Glad you like it my friend!.

Amicalement
Armand