Nancy Wake, Russell Braddon
Nancy Wake, Russell Braddon
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Nancy Wake
World War Two's Most Rebellious Spy

Author: Russell Braddon

Narrator: Nico Evers-Swindell

Unabridged: 9 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/14/2020

Synopsis

‘Of all the variously talented women SOE sent to France, Nancy Wake was perhaps the most formidable’ —Sebastian FaulksThis is the incredible true story of the greatest spy you’ve never heard of—as told to the author by the woman herself.At the outbreak of World War Two, Nancy Wake’s glamorous life in the South of France seemed far removed from the fighting. But when her husband was called up for military service, Nancy felt she had just as much of a duty to fight for freedom. By 1943, her fearless undercover work even in the face of personal tragedy had earned her a place on the Gestapo’s ‘most wanted’ list.Mixing armed combat with a taste for high living, Nancy frustrated the Nazis at every turn—whether she was smuggling food and messages as part of the underground Resistance or being parachuted into the heart of the war to lead a 7,000-strong band of Resistance fighters.The extraordinary courage of this unequalled woman changed the course of the war, and Russell Braddon’s vividly realised biography brings her incredible story to life.

About Russell Braddon

Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in Britain from 1949 until 1993, and died in New South Wales in 1995.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Karren on December 17, 2021

Nancy Wake moved to Sydney as a young child from New Zealand, she was a brilliant student at school and hated having to help at home. Once she was an adult, Nancy decided to go on a world tour and she worked as a freelance journalist. France 1930’s, she met steel industrialist Henri Fiocca, and despi......more

Goodreads review by Bev on March 18, 2015

Nancy Wake was an incredible woman. Born in New Zealand, raised in Australia, traveling to various international spots in young adulthood, she ended up in Paris as a European news correspondent. She married a wealthy Frenchman, Henri Fiocca,in November 1939 and settled in Marseilles where she improv......more

Goodreads review by Tim on April 28, 2017

Another amazing woman. Nancy Wake was an Australian who married a wealthy French businessman and lived in Marseilles when the war broke out. Immediately she got involved in the Resistance, almost recklessly you might say. Soon the Gestapo were onto her and she had to escape to England where she was......more

Goodreads review by Suzannah Rowntree on February 04, 2016

Read for the second time 28 January 2016. Utterly thrilling, incredible, gripping tale of the Allies' most highly-decorated servicewoman, Australian Resistance heroine Nancy Wake. If you think Agent Carter is awesome, think again. Full review now available on Vintage Novels!......more

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