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(3.84) | 4 | 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, 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.… (mer) |
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Information från den engelska sidan med allmänna fakta. Redigera om du vill anpassa till ditt språk. To my late parents, who proudly served Australia in the Second World War, as Lieutenant Peter McCloy FitzSimons, 2nd / 4th Light Anti Aircraft of the Ninth Division AIF (North Africa [El Alamein], New Guinea [Finchaven and Dumpu]) and Lieutenant Beatrice Helen Booth OAM (AIF Physiotherapist in Darwin and Bougainville). And to all the brave men and women who served with them. We dips our lids. | |
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Information från den engelska sidan med allmänna fakta. Redigera om du vill anpassa till ditt språk. In a dingy little room at the back of a modest weatherboard home in the suburb of Roseneath, the air was thick with exhaustion, the sheets and floor nearby lightly spattered with blood and wetness. On the bed, a woman was just starting to recover from the searing waves of pain that had been washing over her during the supreme effort of giving birth. ... on the thirtieth day of August 1912, ... | |
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Information från den engelska sidan med allmänna fakta. Redigera om du vill anpassa till ditt språk. Epilogue: 'I want to be cremated,' she says, with the timbre of barely controlled emotion creeping into her voice. 'And I want my ashes to be scattered over the mountains where I fought with the Resistance. That will be good enough for me.' (Klicka för att visa. Varning: Kan innehålla spoilers.) | |
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