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Carver County Library Suggests Resistance Women

Larry Loftis - Code Name: Lise : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy (921 ODETTE 2019) In 1942, Odette Sansom decides to follow in her war hero father's footsteps by becoming an SOE agent to aid Britain and her beloved homeland, France. Five failed attempts and one plane crash later, she finally landed in occupied France to begin her mission.

Lynne Olson - Madame Fourcade's secret war: the daring young woman who led France's largest spy network (921 FOURCADE 2019) In 1941 a young Frenchwoman became the leader of a vast intelligence organization--the only woman to do so during the war. No other French spy network lasted as long or supplied as much crucial intelligence, including providing American and British military commanders with a 55-foot-long map of the beaches and roads on which the Allies would land on D-Day.

Sarah Rose - D-Day Girls the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II (940.5486 ROS 2019) In 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was fighting. Winston Churchill had already created a secret agency, the Special Operations Executive (SOE). But with most men on the front lines, the SOE was forced to do something unprecedented: recruit women.

Sonia Purnell - A Woman of No Importance: the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II (921 GOILLOT 2019) In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." Their target was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive (SOE). She became the first Allied woman deployed behind enemy lines and helped light the flame of the French Resistance.

Sarah Helm - A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the missing agents of WWII (921 ATKINS) As the head of 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 resistance in Nazi-occupied France. After the war, Atkins committed herself to a dangerous search for twelve of her most cherished

women spies who had gone missing in action. Marthe Cohn - Behind enemy lines: the true story of a French Jewish spy in Nazi Germany (921 Cohn) Marthe Cohn was a young Jewish woman living just across the German border in France when Hitler rose to power. As the Nazi occupation escalated, Marthe became a member of the intelligence service of the French First Army.

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William Stevenson - Spymistress : the life of Vera Atkins, the greatest female secret agent of World War II (940.548641 STE) Recruited at the age of twenty-three by legendary spymaster William Stephenson - code name: Intrepid - Vera Atkins undertook countless perilous missions in the 1930s. During World War II, she became Great Britain's spymistress. Her agents penetrated deep behind enemy lines, aided resistance fighters, destroyed vital targets, helped Allied pilots evade capture, and radioed information back to London. Howard Blum - The Last Goodnight : a World War II story of espionage, adventure, and betrayal (940.5486 BLU 2016) Betty Pack was charming, beautiful, and intelligent, and she knew it. As an agent for Britain's MI-6 and then America's OSS during World War II, these qualities proved crucial to her success. This is the remarkable story of this "Mata Hari from Minnesota" and the passions that ruled a tempestuous life filled with dangerous liaisons and death-defying missions vital to the Allied victory. Shareen Blair Brysac - Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra (921 HARNACK) Mildred and her husband, Arvid Harnack, assisted in the escape of German Jews and political dissidents, and for years provided vital economic and military intelligence to both Washington and Moscow. But in 1942, the Gestapo arrested, tortured, and tried some four score members of the group, which the

Nazis dubbed the Red Orchestra. Mildred Fish-Harnack was guillotined in Berlin on February 16, 1943, the only American woman to be executed as an underground conspirator during World War II. Susan Ottaway - A Cool and Lonely Courage: the untold story of sister spies in occupied France (920 OTT 2014) When elderly recluse Eileen Nearne died, few suspected that the quiet old lady was a decorated WWII war hero. Volunteering to serve for British intelligence at age 21, Eileen was posted to Nazi-occupied France to send encoded messages of crucial importance for the Allies, until her capture by the Gestapo. Caroline Moorehead - A Train in Winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France (940.53082 MOO) In January 1943, 230 women of the French Resistance were sent to Auschwitz by the Nazis who had invaded and occupied their country. A remarkable number of them survived. Liza Mundy - Code Girls : the untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II (940.5486 MUN 2017) Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave them access to careers previously denied.