Nancy: The Special Operations Executive Chronicles 1 - Paperback

by Nigel Watson (Author)

Nancy Wake: Journalist, Wife, Society Lady, Enigma and Special Operations Executive Secret Agent in World War 2. Nancy Wake was born a New Zealander, raised an Australian became a citizen of France and then the United Kingdom, throughout all of that she remained the arch nemesis of Nazi Germany. Nancy was no ordinary citizen under the Vichy Regime in France. Using her various identities she was ferrying downed airmen and other oppressed people down her escape line to freedom. Hundreds of people. Until the Gestapo came close to catching her. Escaping to England, but restless and determined to see the end of the Nazi Tyranny, a few months later she was back in France in a different capacity. This time she was much more dangerous, much more resourceful and much more annoyed. Let no Enemy stand in her way. During World War 2, Nancy and her brave colleagues from SOE, fought, lived, loved, operated and some paid the ultimate price behind enemy lines. Always in great personal danger, under horrific conditions, they worked to return freedom to the people of Europe and help to remove the barbaric Nazi regime that had invaded and subjugated most of the World. Orgainising and personally leading French Resistance groups in German occupied France, Nancy became the most decorated woman in the entire Allied Forces during World War 2. The first in a series of books chronicling the amazing stories of the female agents of SOE. Many brave women went to fight, only some returned. Themselves changed forever as they helped change the course of history. Where would we be without her and the rest of the brave operatives of S.O.E. and other Resistance Groups? This is her story. Based on her incredible true life as an allied agent.