D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the

D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II

NATIONAL BESTSELLER â€¢Â The dramatic, untoldÂ trueÂ story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britainâ€™s elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victoryÂ in World War II

â€œGripping. Spies, romance, Gestapo thugs, blown-up trains, courage, and treachery (lots of treachery)â€”and all of it true.â€â€”Erik Larson, author ofÂ The Devil in the White CityÂ andÂ Dead Wake

In 1942,Â the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England wasÂ on the front lines. To â€œset Europe ablaze,â€ in the words of Winston Churchill, the Special Operations Executive (SOE) was forced to do something unprecedented: recruit women as spies.Â Thirty-nine answered the call, leaving their lives and families to become saboteurs in France.

InÂ D-Day Girls, Sarah Rose draws on recently deÂclassified files, diaries, and oral histories to tell the thrilling story of three of these remarkable women. Thereâ€™s AndrÃ©e Borrel, a scrappy and streetwise Parisian who blew up power lines with the Gestapo hot on her heels; Odette Sansom, an unhappily married suburban mother who saw the SOE as her ticket out of domestic life and into a meaningful adventure; and Lise de Baissac, a fiercely independent member of French colonial high society and the SOEâ€™s unflapÂpable â€œqueen.â€ Together, they destroyed train lines, ambushed Nazis, plotted prison breaks, and gathered crucial intelligenceâ€”laying the groundwork for the D-Day invasion that proved to be the turning point in the war.

Rigorously researched and written with razor-sharp wit,Â D-Day GirlsÂ is an inspiring story for our own moment of resistance: a reminder of what courageâ€”and the energy of politically animated womenâ€”can accomplish when the stakes seem incalculably high.

Praise forÂ D-Day Girls

â€œRigorously researched . . . [a] thriller in the form of a non-fiction book.â€â€”Refinery29

â€œEqual parts espionage-romance thriller and historical narrative,Â D-Day GirlsÂ traces the lives and secret activities of the 39 women who answered the call to infiltrate France. . . . While chronicling the James Bond-worthy missions and love affairs of these women, Rose vividly captures the broken landscape of war.â€â€”TheÂ Washington Post

â€œGripping history . . . thoroughly researched and written as smoothly as a good thriller, this is a mesmerizing story of creativity, perseverance, and astonishing heroism.â€â€”Publishers WeeklyÂ (starred review)
Country USA
Manufacturer Crown
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2019-04-23
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Crown
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2019-04-23
Format	Kindle eBook

D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II

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