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• The William B. Crawley Great Lives Lecture Series

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  Biography is the most intimate approach to history - and the most entertaining. UMW’s Great Lives lecture series reveals how extraordinary people – some born to privilege and power, others from modest backgrounds – shaped art, literature, science,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• D-Day Girls

  the Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II

  Rose, Sarah, 1974-

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  The dramatic and true stories of three women who were chosen to work as spies for Britain's Special Operations Executive.

• Code Name: Lise

  the True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy

  Loftis, Larry

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  This real-life account that reads like a spy novel is about Odette Sansom, who became a trained killer against the Nazis.

• Code Name Pauline

  Memoirs of a World War II Special Agent

  Cornioley, Pearl Witherington, 1914-2008

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  Pearl Cornioley parachuted into occupied France in 1943 at the age of 29 and went on to work with and lead more than 3,500 French guerrilla fighters, also known as the Maquis.

• A Cool and Lonely Courage

  the Untold Story of Sister Spies in Occupied France

  Ottaway, Susan

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  Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne were sisters raised in France who both decided to join the Special Operations Executive and went on to become Allied spies. Jacqueline was able to avoid being captured while Eileen was caught, tortured by the Gestapo,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lady Is a Spy

  Virginia Hall, World War II Hero of the French Resistance

  Mitchell, Don, 1957-

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  Hall served in both the British Special Operations Executive and the US Office of Strategic Services. During her tenure, she worked as a wireless telegraph operator, gathered intelligence in France, and sabotaged Nazi soldiers.

• A Life in Secrets

  Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII

  Helm, Sarah

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  After serving as a spy in WW II, Vera Atkins had a burning need to to find out what happened to the female agents who were undercover in France but hadn't been heard from since. In recounting the fates of these women, the author also reveals there…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lost Girls of Paris

  Jenoff, Pam

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  In 1946, Grace Healy found a suitcase of women's pictures that led her to an amazing story of secret agents who never came home. This fast-paced novel is inspired by true accounts of the heroic acts of twelve brave women.

• Madame Fourcade's Secret War

  the Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

  Olson, Lynne

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  Code-named Hedgehog, Madame Fourcade not only provided much needed intelligence to both the American and British intelligence organizations, but also managed to twice escape from the Nazis.

• Spy Princess

  the Life of Noor Inayat Khan

  Basu, Shrabani

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  Born in Moscow to an Indian nobleman and an American poet, Khan worked for Britain as a spy during WW II. She was eventually captured, but even torture couldn't force her to reveal her own name or what she had been involved in.

• The Spy Who Loved

  the Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville

  Mulley, Clare

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  The UK's first female secret agent, Granville skied into Poland from Hungary and parachuted into occupied France to obtain intelligence for the Allies.

• A Woman of No Importance

  the Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win WWII

  Purnell, Sonia

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  Virginia Hall, an American with a prosthetic leg, became known as the "most dangerous of all Allied spies." While undercover, she blew up bridges, helped prisoners escape, and established an underground network of fellow resisters.