Tickell, Jerrard,
ODETTE - The Story of a British Agent.
Pan Books, London, 1955, 1st in imprint, revised edn., paperback, 286pp, 4pp half tone photo ills., 2 plans in text, [ii] ads., GP35, cover art by Sax, account of the war experiences of Odette Marie Sansom, a French woman who had married a Briton in 1931 and moved to the UK. Her husband enlisted in 1940 and in 1942, in response to a public appeal for photographs of pre-war France she wrote to the War Office. As a result she was invited for interview and joined SOE as a member of FANY (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry), landing in the south of France and serving as Peter Churchill's courier with the codename 'Lise', before being captured, tlrtured and sentenc ed to death and eventually sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp which she was fortunate to survive, roll and vertical creasing to spine, rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, good plus,
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Keywords: ww2 germany france resistance french section soe buckmaster fany pow agent raoul lise churchill ravensbruck