Title:
The Paris girl : the young woman who outwitted the Nazis and became a WWII hero / Francelle Bradford White.
ISBN:
9780806544298
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Uniform Title:
Andrée's war
Publication Information:
New York : Citadel Press / Kensington Publishing Corp., [2025]
©2025
Physical Description:
xiii, 242 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm
General Note:
"Originally published in the UK as Andrée's War by Elliott and Thompson"--Title page verso.
Contents:
Introduction -- An acknowledgement -- The making of a resistance fighter -- War! -- The evacuation of Paris -- Life under occupation -- A first rebellion -- A life well lived -- Fighting back -- Working against the enemy -- Taking risks -- A dangerous affair -- The birth of Orion -- Courage -- Imperilled -- The Allied landing in North Africa -- Arrest -- Escape -- Illness -- Betrayal -- Secret agent -- Gold -- The cyanide option -- The brothel -- The arrest -- The cat with nine lives -- Liberation! -- Life after liberation -- A just reward -- Epilogue -- Intelligence gathering in France -- A notes on the French resistance -- Bibliography and sources -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
Summary:
Written by her own daughter, this biography chronicles the astonishing courage Andrée Griotteray, a teenage girl in Nazi-occupied Paris who would become a hero of the French Resistance through her harrowing work as an underground intelligence courier.
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OCLC Number:
on1464942763
Availability:
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