Lawhon breathes new life into Nancy Wake’s extraordinary story. Rich and thoroughly researched, an exciting, well-written account of wartime valour and the protagonist’s qualities shine through’ The Times

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When the story starts progressing with her investigative work, the moment I thought I was getting into it, another man’s facial description pops up. It’s like some kind of infatuation with facial descriptions.In the 1930s, Wake was an Australian expat living in Paris and had brilliantly bluffed her way into a journalism gig stringing for the European branch of the Hearst Newspaper Group. Well before the start of the war, Wake documented the depravity and revolting cruelty of Adolf Hitler’s private militia known as the Brownshirts. On assignment in 1934 in Vienna’s Old Square, she and her photographer witnessed the paramilitary group publicly and viciously torturing an old Jewish shopkeeper, something the Brownshirts apparently liked to do on Fridays before the beginning of Shabbat. Historical fiction is my favorite genre and I love books and movies about women spies. I have read quite a few about WWII and even WWI, though those women are not as well recognized. Readers will be transfixed by the story of a woman who should be a household name.” — LIBRARY JOURNAL *STARRED* The real life story of Nancy Wake's work for the French Resistance during WWII is fascinating, but the writing style and the eye-rolling, insta-love watered down the accomplishments of this amazing woman. My Year in Nonfiction 2023 #NonficNov #NonfictionNovember #NonfictionBookParty #bookblogger #blogger October 31, 2023

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The commissioner’s mustache twitches in anger. “Then he will not mind hearing that you have been entertaining strange men in his absence.” Wake got her start as an operative after her courtship and 1939 marriage to the French industrialist Henri Fiocca, with whom she lived briefly and happily in Marseille. When the war began and her husband was called to fight, she drove an ambulance to ferry the wounded. And once France fell to Nazi occupation, she aided the escape network of British officer Ian Garrow, whose release she arranged from a concentration camp by bribing a guard. Ultimately, her husband returned from the war, but the Gestapo discovered her Allied loyalties, forcing Wake to flee the country into Britain and leave her beloved husband behind.

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Australian expat, Nancy Wake, lives in Paris and works as a freelancer. She has paved her way onto the roster at Hearst. Tai knyga apie moterį, kurį žengė į mūšio lauką kaip lygiavertė kovotoja ir užsitarnavo kovotojų vyrų pagalbą, moterį, su kuria buvo skaitomasi ir kuriai paklūstama. Apie drąsią kovotoja, plikomis rankomis nužudžiusią nacių karininką. Based on the thrilling real-life story of a socialite spy and astonishing woman who killed a Nazi with her bare hands and went on to become one of the most decorated women in WWII —from the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia.

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narrator, Barrie Kreinik, brings Nancy Wake to life! It wasn't like she was reading it; more like living it on the spot! Her realistic retelling was like watching a good movie! Genre/Categories/Setting: Biographical Historical Fiction, World War 11, French Resistance Movement, France

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Let's face it, I'm not a historical fiction fan and so it takes a lot for me to be impressed by most historical fiction. This is a good book, just not a great one for me.