Nancy Wake Biography (The White Mouse)
Language: English
Published by Harper Collins (Angus & Robertson) Cornstalk, Australia, 2001
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Caerwen Books, Forrestfield, WA, AustraliaCaerwen Books
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Condition: Used - Very good
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Angus & Robertson exclusive edition issued at the same time as the regular edition, bears sticker to the front panel evidencing. Tiny amount of wear to the heel of the spine.
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- Title
- Nancy Wake Biography (The White Mouse)
- Author
- Fitzsimons, Peter
- Publisher
- Harper Collins (Angus & Robertson) Cornstalk, Australia
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0732273854
- ISBN 13
- 9780732273859
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
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, organizing Allied parachute drops, cycling four hundred kilometers 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.
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