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Collection: Adult Nonfiction
Call Number: ME 920 Fourcade's
Author: Olson, Lynne
Title: Madame Fourcade's secret war
Remainder of title: the daring young woman who led France's largest spy network against Hitler /
Summary, etc. note: The little known story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during WW11!

International Standard Book Number: 9780812994766
Canceled/invalid ISBN: 9780812994773 (ebook)
Description conventions: rda
Authentication code: pcc
Geographic area code: e-uk---
Geographic area code: e-fr---
Classification number: D810.S8
Item number: O4765 2019
Edition number: 23
Classification number: B
Classification number: 940.54/8644092
Relator term: author.
Statement of responsibility, etc.: Lynne Olson.
Title proper/short title: Daring young woman who led France's largest spy network against Hitler
Edition statement: First edition
Place of publication: New York ,NY
Name of publisher: Penguin Random House,LLC
Date of publication: 2019
: New York :
: Random House,
: [2019]
Extent: xxiv, 428 pages :
Other physical details: illustrations, maps
Dimensions: 25 cm
: rdacontent
: text
: txt
: rdamedia
: unmediated
: n
: rdacarrier
: volume
: nc
Bibliography, etc. note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-405) and index.
Formatted contents note: Prologue, 1936-1942 -- Leaping into the unknown -- The chaos of defeat -- Fighting back -- Spying in Marseille -- The birth of alliance -- Danger in Paris -- Taking command -- A network in peril -- The mailbag -- The return of Leon Faye -- A game of wits -- "An undisputed leader" -- "Sitting on a barrel of gunpowder" -- The traitor -- A general escapes -- Captured -- Operation Attila -- "Down go the U-boats" -- 1943-1944 -- On the run -- The tinderbox of Lyon -- High anxiety -- "Here you are at last!" -- "The most remarkable girl of her generation" -- Pink heather -- Calamity -- Captives -- The map -- Going home -- 1944-1945 -- Caught in the net -- Liberation and beyond -- "Hail Mary, full of grace" -- The road to Gethsemane -- Epilogue.
Source of acquisition: B & T
Purchase price: 30.00
Personal name: Fourcade, Marie-Madeleine,
Dates associated with a name: 1909-1989.
Subject: World War, 1939-1945
Subject: France
Subject: Women spies
Subject: History
Subject: Espionage, British
Subject: World War, 1939-1945
Subject: World War, 1939-1945
Subject: World War, 1939-1945
Form subdivision: Biography.
Form subdivision: Biography.
Form subdivision: Biography.
Form subdivision: Biography.
Form subdivision: Biography.
Form subdivision: Biography.
General subdivision: Secret service
General subdivision: History
General subdivision: Secret service
General subdivision: Underground movements
General subdivision: Women
Chronological subdivision: 20th century.
Geographic subdivision: France
Geographic subdivision: France
Geographic subdivision: France
Geographic subdivision: Great Britain
Geographic subdivision: Great Britain
Geographic subdivision: France
Geographic subdivision: Great Britain
Geographic subdivision: France.
Geographic subdivision: France.
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