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Olson, Lynne.
Subjects
Fourcade, Marie-Madeleine, 1909-1989.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France
France.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- France -- Biography.
Spies -- France -- Biography.
Women spies -- France -- Biography.
Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Women spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Espionage, British -- France -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Great Britain -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- France.
Madison Choice Award Non-Fiction Nominees 2020
Great Britain.
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Madame Fourcade's se...
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Madame
Fourcade
's
secret
war
: the
daring
young
woman
who
led
France'
s
largest
spy
network
against
Hitler
/ Lynne Olson.
by
Olson, Lynne.
New York, NY : Random House, 2019. 2019.
Subjects
Fourcade
, Marie-Madeleine, 1909-1989.
World
War
, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements --
France
France
.
World
War
, 1939-1945 --
Secret
service --
France
-- Biography.
Spies --
France
-- Biography.
Women spies --
France
-- Biography.
Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Women spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Espionage, British --
France
-- History -- 20th century.
World
War
, 1939-1945 --
Secret
service -- Great Britain -- Biography.
World
War
, 1939-1945 -- Women --
France
.
Madison Choice Award Non-Fiction Nominees 2020
Great Britain.
Format:
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Summary:
"The little-known story of Marie-Madeleine
Fourcade
, the
woman
who
headed the
largest
spy
network
in occupied
France
during World
War
II ... In 1941 a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman, a
young
mother born to privilege and known for her beauty and glamour, became the leader of a vast intelligence organization--the only
woman
to serve as a chef de résistance during the
war
. Strong-willed, independent, and a lifelong rebel
against
her country'
s
conservative, patriarchal society, Marie-Madeleine
Fourcade
was temperamentally made for the job. Her group'
s
name was Alliance, but the Gestapo dubbed it Noah'
s
Ark because its agents used the names of animals as their aliases. The name Marie-Madeleine chose for herself was Hedgehog: a tough little animal, unthreatening in appearance, that, as a colleague of hers put it, 'even a lion would hesitate to bite.' No other French
spy
network
lasted as long or supplied as much crucial intelligence--including providing American and British military commanders with a 55-foot-long map of the beaches and roads on which the Allies would land on D-Day--as Alliance. The Gestapo pursued them relentlessly, capturing, torturing, and executing hundreds of its three thousand agents, including
Fourcade
's own lover and many of her key spies. Although
Fourcade
, the mother of two
young
children, moved her headquarters every few weeks, constantly changing her hair color, clothing, and identity, she was captured twice by the Nazis. Both times she managed to escape--once by slipping naked through the bars of her jail cell--and continued to hold her
network
together even as it repeatedly threatened to crumble around her. Now, in this dramatic account of the
war
that split
France
in two and forced its people to live side by side with their hated German occupiers, Lynne Olson tells the fascinating story of a
woman
who
stood up for her nation, her fellow citizens, and herself."
Description:
xxiv, 428 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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Non-fiction
940.54 Olson, Lynne / Madame
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