Nancy Wake

Peter FitzSimons

Mar 2010 · Bolinda · Narrated by Stephanie Daniel

6 reviews

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In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a naive, young journalist, Nancy Wake witnessed a horrific scene of Nazi violence in a Viennese street. From that moment, she declared that she would do everything in her power to rid Europe of the Nazis. What began as a courier job here and there became a highly successful escape network for Allied soldiers, perfectly camouflaged by Nancy's high-society life in Marseille. Her network was soon so successful - and so notorious - that she was forced to flee France to escape the Gestapo, who had dubbed her 'the white mouse' for her knack of slipping through its traps. But Nancy was a passionate enemy of the Nazis and refused to stay away. Supplying weapons and training members of a powerful underground fighting force, organising Allied parachute drops, cycling four hundred kilometres across a mountain range to find a new transmitting radio - nothing seemed too difficult in her fight against the Nazis. Peter FitzSimons reveals Nancy Wake's compelling story, a tale of an ordinary woman doing extraordinary things.

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Peter FitzSimons is the author of more than 25 books, including Tobruk, Kokoda, Batavia, Eureka, Ned Kelly, Gallipoli,and biographies of Douglas Mawson, Nancy Wake‚ Kim Beazley‚ Nick Farr-Jones‚ Les Darcy, Steve Waugh and John Eales. He is one of Australia's biggest selling non-fiction authors of the last 15 years, as well as being a journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald. FitzSimons was named a Member of the Order of Australia in 2011 for service to literature as a biographer, sports journalist and commentator. He lives with his wife, Lisa Wilkinson, and their three children in Sydney. His latest book, The Courageous Life of Weary Dunlop, is due out in 2026.

Stephanie Daniel spent several years acting in theatre, television and film in the UK and Europe and dubbing films into English in Munich, Paris and Rome. In Australia she has recorded countless audiobooks. Her television appearances include Mercury and Something in The Air. Films Stephanie has appeared in include The Castle and in the theatre in her acclaimed portrait of Jane Austen.

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