Format:
Large Print, Book
Author:
Loftis, Larry, author.
Title:
Code name : Lise [text (large print)] : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy / Larry Loftis.
Edition:
Center Point Large Print edition.
Publisher, Date:
Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2019.
©2019
Description:
438 pages (large print) : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
large print.
Summary:
This is the extraordinary, true story of Odette Sansom, the British spy who operated in occupied France and fell in love with her commanding officer during World War II. Odette Sansom became WWII's most highly decorated spy.
Subjects:
Odette, 1912-1995.
Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Women spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France.
Genre:
Large print books.
Biographies.
Notes:
Regular print version previously published by: Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Dramatis personae -- Preface -- Prologue -- Duty -- Jinxed -- Mission to Marseille -- The briefcase -- Control -- The kiss -- Pearl of the French Alps -- Grand Duke -- Lifeless -- The beam -- They will send for you -- Tick, tick -- The Black Hollow -- Viennese waltzes -- All my love -- Lily of the valley -- The bunker -- The slaughter -- Still warm -- Pierre -- Hunting the hunter -- Fanning the damned -- Completing the loop -- Epilogue -- Appendix: the SOE official history affair.
LCCN:
2019008843
ISBN:
9781643581842 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
1643581848 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
9781643581842 : LIB
1643581848 : LIB
Other Number:
1088601993
System Availability:
5
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3693313
Call Number:
940.54/8641092 B
Course Reserves:
0
# System items in:
5
Medium:
[text (large print)]