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Nancy Wake by Peter FitzSimons Book Summary
The gripping true story of the woman who became the Gestapo's most wanted spy
In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person.
As a naïve, young journalist, Nancy Wake witnessed a horrific scene of Nazi violence in a Viennese street. From that moment, she declared that she would do everything in her power to rid Europe of the Nazis. What began as a courier job here and there became a highly successful escape network for Allied soldiers, perfectly camouflaged by Nancy's high-society life in Marseille.
Her network was soon so successful - and so notorious - that she was forced to flee France to escape the Gestapo, who had dubbed her "the white mouse" for her knack of slipping through its traps. But Nancy was a passionate enemy of the Nazis and refused to stay away. Supplying weapons and training members of a powerful underground fighting force, organising Allied parachute drops, cycling four hundred kilometres across a mountain range to find a new transmitting radio - nothing seemed too difficult in her fight against the Nazis. Peter FitzSimons reveals Nancy Wake's compelling story, a tale of an ordinary woman doing extraordinary things.
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Book Name | Nancy Wake |
Genre | Biographies & Memoirs |
Author | Peter FitzSimons |
Published | 01 October 2011, Saturday |
Language | English |
E-Book Size | 1.37 MB |
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Nancy Wake Biography Revised Edition. Incredible woman; incredible book! What a life! Much sadness; much happiness; much excitement. Recently, I have read several books set in Germany and Poland during the same time frame. Also great reads, but fiction. This book is the real thing. What a horrible time to be in Europe. I highly recommend this book to get a peek at what people endured.
Quite a patriot!. I never knew about Nancy Wake until I read her story. I watched her interviewed on YouTube as well. A magnificent and brave woman, absolutely fearless, loyal and dedicated to freedom. She was outraged when seeing innocent people suffering and was determined to do anything she could to help and she did. A book so riveting, I had to keep reading until I finished. Nancy was a true patriot and heroine. May she be rewarded in Heaven!
Nancy Wake. Riveting, exciting and so periodically human. I think this book should be the subject of a TV series. It would far out sell Downton Abby.
While the life was amazing...the read was lackluster. Who Nancy Wake was and how she came to be so important is a remarkable story. Unfortunately, the writer chose to write bare facts without any richness of emotion or description to make me “Feel” what it was like to live through such dangerous times.
Great title to a great book!. Nancy Wake is clearly a heroine! What bravery she displayed to save people while others closed their eyes to Hitler ‘s madness. We could all use some of her courage to stand up for what is right. Nancy always did what was right and never paid service to the politically correct. She played hard but fought even harder for what was right. She will always be an inspiration to me! Thank you for telling her story, BRAVO!!
Inspired. I’ve read many biographies but this is the first one that has left me life-changed. Sure, she was an amazing partisan but something about who she is (was) as a person, her character, has left me thinking, thinking, thinking. The death of Henri was just agonizing. Peter, I know this is one of your early books but all them I just cannot put down, including this one !!!
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Interesting life, awful writing. I can't understand why this journo is so popular. Nancy Wakes life is a fascinating subject which he manages to make dull by lack of descriptions and characterisations.
Nancy Wake. When the reader can get transported back to the period when the events occurred - it's magic. When the author is humbled and awestruck together by his subject, Nancy Wake (who would not be) - it makes for riveting reading! What a lady she was - there have many adjectives used to describe her - some go close, she is in a league of her own.
What an amazing woman. I have just about finished the audio book version of this and have been throughly gripped. What a truly amazing and heroic woman she was so full of guts and spunk. I will be keen to learn more of Nancy Wake.
Amazing. Couldn't put it down, and loved every word. Wonderfully written and amazing attention to detail. A must read for any young Australian woman. Can re-read this book over and over.
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Summary of Nancy Wake by Peter FitzSimons
The Nancy Wake book written by Peter FitzSimons was published on 01 October 2011, Saturday in the Biographies & Memoirs category. A total of 193 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.
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