THE WAR WE WON APART the untold Story of Two eleite Agents Whoe Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII

Ayed, Nahlah

ISBN 10: 0735242062 / ISBN 13: 9780735242067

Published by Viking Canada, Toronto, 2024

About this Item

(CAD) 1st printing. No markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 406pp, index, B&W photos. This is the biography of Sonia Butts, and Guy D'Artois, who worked in the British Secret Service in WWII. (2.0 JM Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Seller Inventory # 08398

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE WAR WE WON APART the untold Story of Two eleite Agents Whoe Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII
• Publisher: Viking Canada, Toronto
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0735242062
• ISBN 13: 9780735242067
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • True Crime and Espionage, Terrorism
  • Biography
  • Z ZZA

About this title

Synopsis

INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Love, betrayal, and a secret war: the untold story of two elite agents, one Canadian, one British, who became one of the most decorated couples of WWII.

On opposite sides of the pond, Sonia Butt, an adventurous young British woman, and Guy d’Artois, a French-Canadian soldier and thunderstorm of a man, are preparing for war.

From different worlds, their lives first intersect during clandestine training to become agents with Winston Churchill’s secret army, the Special Operations Executive. As the world’s deadliest conflict to date unfolds, Sonia and Guy learn how to parachute into enemy territory, how to kill, blow up rail lines, and eventually . . . how to love each other. But not long after their hasty marriage, their love is tested by separation, by a titanic invasion—and by indiscretion.

Writing in vivid, heart-stopping prose, Ayed follows Sonia as she plunges into Nazi-occupied France and slinks into black market restaurants to throw off occupying Nazi forces, while at the same time participating in sabotage operations against them; and as Guy, in another corner of France, trains hundreds into a resistance army.

Reconstructed from hours of unpublished interviews and hundreds of archival and personal documents, the story Ayed tells is about the ravaging costs of war paid for disproportionately by the young. But more than anything, The War We Won Apart is a story about love: two secret agents who were supposed to land in enemy territory together, but were fated to fight the war apart.

About the Author

NAHLAH AYED is an award-winning writer, broadcaster, and current host of the CBC Radio program and podcast, Ideas. For two decades, Ayed reported from conflict zones around the globe—from Afghanistan and Iraq to Gaza and Ukraine. Her first book, A Thousand Farewells, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Awards. Follow her on X @NahlahAyed.