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A01=Jerrard Tickell
Author_Jerrard Tickell
behind the lines
betrayal
British agent
Carve Her Name in Pride
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concentration camps
courage
double-dealing
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espionage
extraordinary woman
female agent in France
French Resistance
heroic mother
history
inspirational story
liberation of Europe
Nazi repression
survival
true story
World War II

Product details

  • ISBN 9780755316816
  • Weight: 306g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 29 May 2008
  • Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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'I am a very ordinary woman to whom a chance was given to see human beings at their best and at their worst... I completely believe in the potential nobility of the human spirit.'

During some of the darkest days of the Second World War, a young Frenchwoman living as a mother and housewife in England left her ordinary life to become a British agent, working covertly in France to aid the Resistance. Entering a murky and deadly world of espionage and double-dealing, she was betrayed to the Germans, only to endure torture by the Gestapo and the hell of the infamous concentration camp of Ravensbruck. Yet she retained a compassion, grace and spiritedness that mystified her captors; and, living to see the liberation of Europe, she kept, in the direst circumstances, her fundamental trust in goodness. ODETTE tells the moving and inspirational story of a woman, who, in her courage and her ability to hold on to hope, was far from ordinary.

Jerrard Tickell (1905-1966) was born in Dublin and educated in Tipperary and London. His career as a writer began in 1936, with SEE HOW THEY RUN, and continued with a series of bestselling novels and biographies, ODETTE (1949) being the best known. Tickell married and had three sons.

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