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 naive, 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, organizing Allied parachute drops, cycling four hundred
kilometers 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.
