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Code Name Hélène
by Ariel Lawhon📕 Code Name Hélène ~ Read More 📕
- Characters: Nancy Wake
- Language: english
- Publisher: Doubleday Books
- Release date: March 31, 2020
- Genres: fiction, historical, war, adult, france, espionage
- ISBN: 9780385544689 (0385544685)
- Author: Ariel Lawhon
- Format: hardcover, 464 pages
About The Book
This book is based on the life of Nancy Wake, an Australian expat who worked as a reporter for Hearst in Paris just before WWII and later as a spy for the British. Lawhon throws readers into the middle of the action, as Nancy, under the alias Hélène, prepares to parachute from an RAF plane into France to help the Resistance in 1944, carrying in her head memorized lists of vital data, including bridges targeted for destruction and safe house addresses. After she lands, the story flashes back eight years, as Nancy struggles for respect and recognition as a journalist; despite her firsthand observations of Nazi brutality in 1930s Vienna, her editor is reluctant to publish a story about what she’s seen. Frequent jumps in time draw out the arc of Wake’s remarkable life; despite her statement early on that women’s weapons of warfare were limited to “silk stockings and red lipstick,” by the end she’s proven herself skillful at physical combat as well.
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