Author: Tickell, Jerrard,
Title: ODETTE.
Description: Headline Review, London, 2007, 1st in imprint, xii, 371pp incl [iii] pp half tone photo ills., [i] ad., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, 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 and eventually sent to Ravensbruck which she survived, edges a little tanned and foxed, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, short nicks at spine ends, very good plus in a very good dustrwapper,

Keywords: ww2 germany france resistance french section soe buckmaster fany pow agent raoul lise churchill


See more books from our catalog: WW2 - Occupation, Resistance, Sabotage and Espionage