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A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII
Contributor(s): Helm, Sarah (Author)
ISBN: 1400031400     ISBN-13: 9781400031405
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2007
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Annotation: Once rumored to have been the inspiration for Ian Fleming's Miss Moneypenny, Vera Atkins climbed her way to the top in Special Operations Executive, or SOE, Britain's secret service created to help the resistance efforts in Nazi-occupied countries. Drawing on recently released government files and unprecedented access to family papers, Helm vividly reconstructs a complex and extraordinary life.
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Military
- History | Military - World War Ii
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2005056870
Physical Information: 1.13" H x 5.26" W x 8" (1.12 lbs) 544 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1940's
 
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From an award-winning journalist comes this real-life cloak-and-dagger tale of Vera Atkins, one of Britain's premiere secret agents during World War II.
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 courageously committed herself to a dangerous search for twelve of her most cherished women spies who had gone missing in action. Drawing on previously unavailable sources, Sarah Helm chronicles Atkins's extraordinary life and her singular journey through the chaos of post-war Europe. Brimming with intrigue, heroics, honor, and the horrors of war, A Life in Secrets is the story of a grand, elusive woman and a tour de force of investigative journalism.