Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Helm, Sarah |
| Publisher: | Anchor |
| Date: | 12/4/2007 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
From an award-winning journalist comes this real-life cloak-and-dagger tale of VeraAtkins, one of Britain’s premiere secret agents during World War II.
As the headof the French Section of the British Special Operations Executive, Vera Atkins recruited,trained, and mentored special operatives whose job was to organize and arm the resistancein Nazi-occupied France. After the war, Atkins courageously committed herself toa dangerous search for twelve of her most cherished women spies who had gone missingin action. Drawing on previously unavailable sources, Sarah Helm chronicles Atkins’sextraordinary life and her singular journey through the chaos of post-war with intrigue, heroics, honor, and the horrors of war, A Life in Secrets is the story of a grand, elusive woman and a tour de force of investigative journalism.
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