Nancy Wake

A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine 1912-2011

Peter FitzSimons

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Harper Collins
08 November 2011

Biography: historical, political & military; Second World War; Biography - Australian

The gripping true story of the woman who became the Gestapo's most wanted spy

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 naïve, 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.

For fans of A Woman of No Importance and Code Name: Lise comes the true story behind the historical fiction novels Code Name Helène and Liberation.

By: Peter FitzSimons
Imprint: Harper Collins
Country of Publication: Australia
Edition: Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 304g
ISBN: 9780732295257
ISBN 10: 0732295254
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 08 November 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter FitzSimons is a journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald. He is the author of nearly twenty books - including Tobruk and biographies of Nancy Wake, Kim Beazley, Nene King, Nick Farr-Jones, Steve Waugh and John Eales.