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28-04-2019, 05:38 AM

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The dramatic, untold story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain'selite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory, for fans of A WOMANOF NO IMPORTANCE by Sonia Purnell
'Gripping: Spies, romance, Gestapo thugs, blown-up trains, courage, andtreachery (lots of treachery) - and all of it true, all preciselydocumented'
ERIK LARSON, author of THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY
'The mission is this: Read D-Day Girls today. Not just for the spy flairbut also because this history feels more relevant than ever, as an army ofwomen and girls again find themselves in a fight for the common good'
LILY KOPPEL, author of THE ASTRONAUT WIVES CLUB
'Thoroughly researched and written as smoothly as a good thriller , thisis a mesmerising story of creativity, perseverance, and astonishing heroism'
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, Starred review
In 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every ableman in England was fighting. Believing that Britain was locked in anexistential battle, Winston Churchill had already created a secret agency, theSpecial Operations Executive (SOE), whose spies were trained in everythingfrom demolition to sharpshooting. Their job, he declared, was to 'set Europeablaze'. But with most men on the front lines, the SOE was forced to dosomething unprecedented: recruit women. Thirty-nine answered the call, leavingtheir lives and families to become saboteurs in France.
In D-Day Girls , Sarah Rose draws on recently declassified files, diaries,and oral histories to tell the thrilling story of three of these remarkablewomen. There's Andrée Borrel, a scrappy and streetwise Parisian who blew uppower lines with the Gestapo hot on her heels; Odette Sansom, an unhappilymarried suburban mother who saw the SOE as her ticket out of domestic life andinto a meaningful adventure; and Lise de Baissac, a fiercely independentmember of French colonial high society and the SOE's unflappable 'queen'.Together, they destroyed train lines, ambushed Nazis, plotted prison breaks,and gathered crucial intelligence-laying the groundwork for the D-Day invasionthat proved to be the turning point in the war.
Rigorously researched and written with razor-sharp wit, D-Day Girls is aninspiring story for our own moment of resistance: a reminder of what courage-and the energy of politically animated women-can accomplish when the stakesseem incalculably high.
More great reviews for D-Day Girls :
' Compelling - these under-reported stories of fearless and principledwomen will provide inspiration'
BOOKLIST
'With skill and heart, Sarah Rose captures the adventures of an extraordinarygroup of women who kept the resistance alive during the darkest days of WorldWar II, risking everything to liberate their loved ones, their nations, anddemocracy itself. I couldn't stop reading'
JASON FAGONE, AUTHOR OF THE WOMAN WHO SMASHED CODES
'Rose delivers a swift moving . . . expert blow-by-blow account . . . A spythriller that fights against the idea of "the original sin of women at war"'
KIRKUS REVIEWS
'Daring, modern, and gorgeously written . . . This is the D-Day book the worldhas been waiting for'
KAREN ABBOTT, AUTHOR OF SIN IN THE SECOND CITY AND LIAR, TEMPTRESS,SOLDIER, SPY
'Sarah Rose's D-Day Girls is . . . a page-turning spy story that will, atlong last, inscribe the names of three remarkable female spies-Andrée Borrel,Odette Sansom, Lise de Baissac-into our history books'
SUSANNAH CAHALAN, AUTHOR OF BRAIN ON FIRE
'A fresh, thrilling account of the female spies whose courage and audacityhelped win the day on June 6, 1944'
ALEX KERSHAW, AUTHOR OF THE BEDFORD BOYS AND AVENUE OF SPIES