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Titel: Code Name Pauline Zustand: Neu Subtitle: Memoirs of a World War II Special Agent Autor: Pearl Witherington Cornioley Contributor: Kathryn J. Atwood (Edited by) Produktart: Taschenbuch EAN: 9781613731581 ISBN: 9781613731581 Verlag: Chicago Review Press Genre: Children's Reference Thematik: Children's Learning & Education Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2015 Description: An NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
There was a full moon on the evening of September 22, 1943, when Pearl Witherington, age 29, parachuted into France to aid the French Resistance as a special agent for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). Out of the 400 agents sent to France during the German occupation, 39 were women. Pearl, whom the SOE called “cool and resourceful and extremely determined” and “the best shot, male or female, we have yet had,” became one of the most celebrated female World War II resistance fighters.
In Code Name Pauline Pearl describes in a series of plainspoken reminiscences her difficult childhood and harrowing escape from France in 1940; her recruitment and training as a special agent; the logistics and dangers of posing as a cosmetics saleswoman to make her way around the country as an undercover courier; and both failed and successful attempts at sabotaging the Nazis. She tells how, when the leader of her network was caught by the Gestapo, she became “Pauline” and rose to command a 3,500-strong band of French Resistance fighters.
With an annotated list of key figures, an appendix of original unedited interview extracts—including Pearl’s husband Henri’s story—and never-before-published photographs from Pearl’s personal collection, Code Name Pauline will captivate World War II buffs of any age and, just as Pearl wished, inspire young people.
Sprache: Englisch Zielgruppe: Jugendliche Herstellungsland und -region: US Höhe: 215mm Länge: 139mm Gewicht: 258g Buchreihe: Women of Action Title Format: Taschenbuch
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Buchtitel:Code Name Pauline
Subtitle:Memoirs of a World War II Special Agent
Autor:Pearl Witherington Cornioley
Contributor:Kathryn J. Atwood (Edited by)
Produktart:Taschenbuch
EAN:9781613731581
ISBN:9781613731581
Verlag:Chicago Review Press
Genre:Children's Reference
Thematik:Children's Learning & Education
Erscheinungsdatum:01.06.2015
Sprache:Englisch
Zielgruppe:Jugendliche
Herstellungsland und -region:US
Höhe:215mm
Länge:139mm
Gewicht:258g
Buchreihe:Women of Action
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