Resistance Fighter – Nancy Wake

She killed a Nazi with her bare hands.

Nancy Wake was a gutsy journalist from Australia who became a leader of the Allied resistance and killed a Nazi with her bare hands.

Born in New Zealand in 1912, Nancy was raised in Sydney. She ran away from home at age 16 and went to London, where she became a self-taught journalist.

As a young woman, Nancy described herself as someone who loved nothing more than a “good drink and handsome men, especially French men.” In 1930 she married Henri Edmond Fiocca, a wealthy French industrialist.

During the 1930’s Nancy worked for Hearst newspapers as a European correspondent. Stationed in Vienna, Nancy witnessed the rise of Nazism. She was shocked to see roving gangs of Nazis beating up Jews, and never forgot the sight of Jews chained to massive wheels and rolled through the streets. She later said, “I resolved there and then that if I ever had the chance I would do anything to make things more difficult for their rotten party.”

Nancy became a courier for the French resistance. Speaking perfect French, she worked with the “maquis” – guerrilla bands of resistance fighters. After Germany invaded France, she helped Allied POW’s and other personnel escape the country.

The Gestapo called Nancy the “White Mouse.” They tapped her phone and intercepted her mail. Nancy’s life was in constant danger.

Nancy described her method of avoiding detection by the Germans: “A little powder and a little drink on the way, and I’d pass their German posts and wink and say, ‘Do you want to search me?’ God, what a flirtatious little bastard I was.”

Nancy led repeated attacks on Gestapo headquarters. By 1943, she was the most wanted resistance fighter, with a 5 million franc price on her head.

After Nancy’s maquis network was betrayed, she fled France. Her husband stayed behind, and he was captured, tortured and killed by the Gestapo. Nancy, on her way across the Pyrenees to Spain, was unaware of her husband’s death until after the war.

In 1944, Nancy parachuted into France. Her assignment involved collecting and distributing arms and equipment that were sent in by parachute. Nancy was a highly successful recruiter, and is credited with bringing 7500 fighters into the resistance.

From April 1944 until the liberation of France in August 1944, Nancy’s band of maquisards fought 22,000 German soldiers, causing 1400 casualties while sustaining only 100 of their own.

At one point, Nancy killed an SS guard with her bare hands to stop him from raising the alarm during a raid. She later described how she did it, “They’d taught this judo-chop stuff with the flat of the hand at SOE [special operations training] and I practiced away at it. But this was the only time I used it – whack – and it killed him all right. I was really surprised.”

Another time, Nancy’s wireless operator was shut down in a German raid, and she rode her bicycle over 300 miles through German checkpoints to deliver the secret codes.

After the war, Nancy was awarded the United States Medal of Freedom, the Medaille de la Resistance, and the Croix de Guerre, among many other honors.

Nancy continued to work as an intelligence agent. She married a Royal Air Force officer in 1957 and for the next several decades they divided their time between London and Australia. Nancy’s autobiography, The White Mouse, was published in 1985 and became a bestseller.

Nancy’s husband died in 2001, and she returned to London permanently. She lived at the Stafford Hotel near Picadilly, her expenses largely paid for by the hotel’s owners, who were honored to host a renowned heroine. She could be found every morning at the hotel bar, drinking her first gin and tonic of the day.

Nancy died in 2011 at age 98. Her remarkable story has been the subject of multiple biographies and television mini-series.

For fighting the good fight against the Nazi war machine, we honor Nancy Wake as this week’s Thursday Hero.

HI HELLO I saw your arcana swap au and now im intrigued as hell

If you have anything to share about it uhm hi 🙏

ooh okay okay okay!

ive drafted a whole list of the phantom thieves/the hamburgulars but due to like 3 of them not having codenames i haven't posted it. however its p much the same as canon p5r just with the arcanas swapped and the plots slightly altered (palace rulers no 2, 4, 5, 6 & 8 are different)

so right now i have 6 chapters published on ao3 under the name The Butterfly Effect and tbh im quite proud of the story so far! i love fool!yusuke and the rest of the starting team are a joy to write (esp chariot!makoto and lovers!futaba, who have a really fun dynamic!). the next palace is completely original so i gotta figure out the puzzles for it lol

anyway - codenames & personas (for the ones who have codenames lol);

fool!yusuke - ace - nezumi

magician!violet (sumire) - rouge - giselle

charitot!makoto - knight - ching shih

lovers!futaba - jackal - charlotte

emperor!akira - raven - raffles

priestess!goro - ???? - corey

hermit!ryuji - anchor - nautlius

empress!ann - ???? - hélène

justice!haru - cygne - cagliostro

faith!satoru (morgana) - ???? - don quixote

tbh the one who's persona im most proud of is empress!ann - she was originally in the justice position but i changed it around when i made futaba the lovers and goro the priestess, switching haru with her - and her persona is based on a aotearoan (new zealander) spy during ww2 named nancy wake! her original persona name was fiocca - another codename wake used - but i went with hélène instead!

i also really like priestess!goro's persona. i struggled a bit to find a persona with a similar aesthetic to canon makoto's, but then i was listening to a podcast on the salem witch trials and reminded of giles corey, the guy who after his wife was accused of witchcraft straight up went "fuck these witch trials, its bullshit and im not going to be part of it" which lead to him being accused of witchcraft and instead of going along with the mass hysteria of a lot of the young people of salem, decided to be silent and take the punishment of basically getting squished by rocks. instead of revealing other witches, he just kept saying "more weight!" forcing the executioners to push rocks down on him until he died

also lovers!futaba was another persona that i thought was super fun - she's based on charlotte corday from the french revolution, who was not a supporter of the jacobin side of the french revolution and accused the newspaper writer jean-paul marat of basically encouraging violence. so, she decided to trick him into reading a list of potential enemies, and while he was distracted, she decided to stab him! this killed him, and unfortunately she got executed, but she's best remembered for this quote; "I killed one man to save 100,000"

anyway thats a lot of text lol but thanks again for asking this question! very happy to share more info about my asau if people want <3

1944-Nancy Wake parachutes back into France.

 Nancy Wake Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, AC, GM (30 August 1912 – 7 August 2011), also known as Madame Fiocca and Nancy Fiocca, was a nurse and journalist who joined the French Resistance and later the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II.

Durante la ocupación nazi de Francia en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la Resistencia hizo una brillante labor de sabotajes y atentados que obligó a los alemanes a distraer importantes efectivos del frente, para destinarlos a la persecución de los resitentes, especialemnet de sus líderes, tan inteligentes como escurridizos. Uno de aquellos líderes, fue Nancy Wake, una periodista británica casada con el francés, Henri Fiocca, que rendía labor como espaia para los aliados, y autentica pesadilla para la Gestapo que llegó a tomarse como cuestión de orgullo su captura, una mujer combativa y muy lista a la que los esbirros de Reinhard Heydrich apodaron "el ratón blanco", por su habilidad para escapar de las trampas que le tendieron. La gestapo llegó a capturar a su marido en 1943, intentaron obtener de él el paradero de Nancy sin resultado, lo asesinaron. Wake es la mujer más condecorada del bando aliado. Tras el fin del conflicto se marchó a Inglaterra donde trabajó para el Ministerio del Aíre, se volvio a casar y llevó una vida, "normal", murió en 2011 a los 98 años de edad. https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch5tg28ovxk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

French Resistance hero Nancy Wake dies at 98 In this March 2, 2004 file photo, Australian spy and French resistance hero Nancy Wake displays her medal after she was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in London. Wake has died in London at age 98 on Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011. In this March 2, 2004 file photo, Australian spy and French resistance hero Nancy Wake displays her medal after she was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in London. Wake has died in London at age 98 on Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Adam Butler, File)( / AP) BY ROD MCGUIRK, ASSOCIATED PRESS AUG. 7, 2011 10:02 PM PT CANBERRA, Australia — Australian Nancy Wake, who as a spy became one the Allies’ most decorated servicewomen for her role in the French Resistance during World War II, has died in London, officials said Monday. She was 98. Code named “The White Mouse” by the Gestapo during the war, Wake died Sunday in a London nursing home, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said.

“Nancy Wake was a woman of exceptional courage and resourcefulness whose daring exploits saved the lives of hundreds of Allied personnel and helped bring the Nazi occupation of France to an end,” Gillard said in a statement.

Trained by British intelligence in espionage and sabotage, Wake helped to arm and lead 7,000 Resistance fighters in weakening German defenses before the D-Day invasion in the last months of the war.

While distributing weapons, money and code books in Nazi-occupied France, she evaded capture many times and reached the top of the Gestapo’s wanted list, according to her biographer, Peter FitzSimons.

“They called her the ‘la Souris Blanche,’ ‘the White Mouse,’ because every time they had her cornered … she was gone again,” FitzSimons told Australian Broadcast Corp. radio on Monday.

“Part of it was she was a gorgeous looking woman,” he said. “The Germans were looking for someone who looked like them: aggressive, a man with guns - and she was not like that.”

France decorated her with its highest military honor, the Legion d’Honneur, as well as three Croix de Guerre and the Medaille de la Resistance.

France’s junior minister for veterans affairs, Marc Laffineur, hailed Wake on Monday as “an exceptional woman whose commitment to liberty was matched only by her courage and tenacity in the face of the Nazi occupation. Nancy Wake was an intrepid Resistance fighter, a genius saboteur and spy, who gave everything in her fight to rescue France.”

The United States awarded her its Medal of Freedom and Britain, the George Medal. Her only Australian honor did not come until 2004, when she was made a Companion of the Order of Australia.

Born Aug. 30, 1912, in the New Zealand capital of Wellington, Nancy Grace Augusta Wake was the youngest of six siblings. When she was 2 the family moved to Sydney, but her father left the family soon after and returned to New Zealand.

Wake became a nurse before an inheritance from a New Zealand aunt enabled her to run away from home in 1931 and fulfill her dream of traveling to New York, London and Paris, she said in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corp. in 1985.

After studying journalism in London, she became a correspondent for The Chicago Tribune in Paris and reported on the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany. A 1933 trip to interview Hitler in Vienna led her to become committed to bringing down the Nazis.

“I saw the disagreeable things that he was doing to people, first of all the Jews,” she told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio in 1985. “I thought it was quite revolting.”

When World War II broke out in 1939, she was living in the French city of Marseille with her first husband, French industrialist Henri Fiocca. She helped British servicemen and Jews escape the German occupying force.

Her husband was eventually seized, tortured and killed by the Gestapo. But Wake managed to escape in 1943 through Spain to London, where she received the espionage training before helping to lead the French Resistance in its final days.

Wake continued working for British intelligence in Europe after the war until 1957, when she moved back to Australia and married British fighter pilot John Forward. She moved back to Britain in 2001, four years after Forward’s death. She never had children.

According to her wishes, Wake’s body is expected to be cremated privately and her ashes scattered next spring at Montlucon in central France, where she fought in a heroic 1944 attack on the local Gestapo headquarters.

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The Gestapo's Enemy Number One╽ Life Story of Nancy Wake - Code Name The White Mouse

The Gestapo’s Enemy Number One╽ Life Story of Nancy Wake – Code Name The White Mouse

Blessed with a cunning ability of outsmarting the Germans and defying their constant traps at every single turn during the second world war, the Gestapo dubbed her “the white mouse”. The actual name of this fearless yet charming woman was Nancy Wake, a New Zealand born journalist who played a critical role in saving lives and never backing down. Continue reading

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Nancy Wake (1912-2011).

War heroine.

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She outwitted the German Gestapo for years and fought fiercely as a saboteur and spy for the French Resistance, ultimately becoming World War II’s most decorated servicewoman. Wake was born in New Zealand and grew up in Australia then later worked as a journalist in France, where, after the German invasion, she joined the Resistance. The official historian of the SOE, M.R.D. Foot, said that "her irrepressible, infectious, high spirits were a joy to everyone who worked with her."

She was called “the White Mouse” for her ability to escape traps, and at one time she topped the Gestapo’s most-wanted list with a 5-million-franc price on her head. Forced to flee when her network was betrayed, Wake was captured and interrogated for four days, but she escaped through Spain to Britain.

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Wake was living in Marseille with her French industrialist husband, Henry Fiocca, when the war broke out. After the fall of France to Nazi Germany in 1940, Wake became a courier for the Pat O'Leary escape network led by Ian Garrow and, later, Albert Guerisse. As a member of the escape network, she helped Allied airmen evade capture by the Germans and escape to neutral Spain. In 1943, when the Germans became aware of her, she escaped to Spain and continued on to the United Kingdom. Her husband was captured and executed.

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After reaching Britain, Wake, codenamed "Helene," joined the Special Operations Executive (SOE). On April 29-30, 1944 as a member of a three person SOE team codenamed "Freelance," Wake parachuted into Allier Department of occupied France to liaise between the SOE and several maquis groups in the Auvergne region which were loosely overseen by Emile Coulaudon (code name Gaspard). She was a participant in a battle between a large force of Germans and the maquis in June 1944. Although she was known as a ferocious hand-to-hand fighter, Wake claimed that her proudest moment came when she bicycled through several Nazi checkpoints over 500 km (about 310 mi) in less than 72 hours to reopen communications after Resistance radio codes were destroyed.

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Wake was a recipient of the George Medal from the United Kingdom, the Medal of Freedom from the United States, the Legion of Honor from France, and medals from Australia and New Zealand. After the war she served in the British Foreign Office (1946–48) and as an intelligence officer (1951–58). Thereafter she lived intermittently in Australia until she retired to England in 2001. In 1985, she published her autobiography, The White Mouse.

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Her second husband was John Forward.

She died from a chest infection.

i never know what to ask in this trivias but you can tell me wharever you want about Henri👀 like some fluffy thing about their relationship or how does he look like uwu (just to be clear i'm talking about the husband 😅)

and your project sounds really cool!! ✨

Heyyy! Thank you for asking 💛

Ohhh yes, I can talk about him gladly 🥺

First of all, Henri is inspired by a real person, actually I did keep his name as well as Henri Tardivat’s, because they didn’t mean to be so present in the fic (with him being dead and Tardivat just in the first chapters) which I kind of regret if I’m being honest because I feel bad haha. As I said, he was a real person, Henri Fiocca. The difference between my Henri and the real one is that I made him French resistance, but he actually wasn’t; he was a millionaire industrialist and his family was one of Marseille’s leading families at the time. He only got involved with his wife’s job when they both were helping Ian Garrow with his escape routes (Ian was a Colonel of the British Army), which consisted in them escaping POWs and allied internees from France to Britain!

The rest is true, that he was tortured for five months to know Nancy’s (Grace) whereabouts and then killed after he wasn’t willing to utter a single world about her.

Now, my Henri!

My Henri was French resistance and best friend with Tardivat (I’m quite sure the real ones never met each other!), and they met during Grace’s first mission in France; they fell in love quite quickly, which is odd for Grace with her having trust issues and all that! But he managed to change her, somehow. His face claim is one of my favourite actors, Luke Bracey! I like to imagine Henri as him in the movie Hacksaw Ridge.

I’m planning on writing their wedding and when they’re together for the last time before he gets captured, so I won’t give you spoilers about that eheh! All I’m saying is that I’d like to think that he was different too, before meeting Grace; that he was reckless, unconcerned, an overly gregarious lad. And his personality managed to change her, and he changed with her too. They changed together.

Thank you again so much for asking 🥰💛 and for liking my upcoming project!

Born in New Zealand in 1912, Nancy Wake moved to Sydney as a toddler, where her father promptly abandoned his wife and their six children. Wake ran away from her unhappy home at 16 and trained as a nurse before receiving £200 from a sympathetic aunt. This was more than enough to fund her passage to London, New York, and Paris, where she found work as a journalist.

In 1930s Europe she witnessed the rise of Hitler, Nazism and anti-Semitism, and, having seen the brutality of the stormtroopers in Vienna, she determined to fight the fascists as they rolled into France. She joined the Resistance as a courier, bought an ambulance to help refugees fleeing the German advance, smuggled messages and food to the underground, and aided the escape of more than 1,000 Allied soldiers to Spain.

Nancy Wake (now Nancy Fiocca, after marrying in 1939) was so proficient at evading capture that the Gestapo gave her the codename "White Mouse" and put a 5 million franc bounty on her head. In 1943 she escaped to England and joined the French Section of the SOE (Special Operations Executive) and was trained at a British Ministry of Defense camp in Scotland in survival skills, silent killing, codes and radio operation, night parachuting, plastic explosives, Sten guns, rifles, pistols and grenades. 

In the Spring of 1944 Nancy parachuted back into France accompanied by another SOE operative on a mission to organize the French Resistance, or Maquis, in preparation for the Normandy invasion. They engaged in guerrilla warfare, inflicting severe damage on German troops and facilities, using arms and ammunition collected from night-time parachute drops.

In recognition of her remarkable wartime service, Nancy Wake was awarded: the George Medal, Companion of the Order of Australia, the RSA Badge in Gold, the Croix de guerre, Officer of the Legion of Honour, and the US Medal of Freedom. She died in 2011.

I don't know the source of the B/W photo, but the color one belongs to Tim Mercer/Mercer Design. The oil painting beside it was done by Melissa Beowulf in 2001 and is owned by the UK's National Portrait Gallery. Finally, the bottom portrait of Nancy in her Nazi-fighting heyday was done by Monica Garwood and is featured in the book series Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls.

Nancy Wake: A story of a British spy

Nancy Wake: A story of a British spy

If a woman is beautiful, she should be cool. Wonderful combatant should also be a soldier, and if you are so fast in the work of espionage, what will you say about him? The name of this woman was Nancy Grace Augusta Wake. People called him Nancy Wake. She was among the famous women fighters of the second world war. In many ways, his personality was immense.

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Codename Helene

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Woman. Wife. Smuggler. Spy . . .

TV SERIES IN DEVELOPMENT STARRING ELIZABETH DEBICKI (TENET, THE CROWN) AS NANCY WAKE

A thrilling and heart-wrenching novel inspired by the astonishing real life story of Nancy Wake. Perfect for fans of Suzanne Goldring’s MY NAME IS EVA, Kate Quinn’s THE ALICE NETWORK and Imogen Kealey’s LIBERATION, soon to be a blockbuster movie.

‘Lawhon breathes new life into Nancy Wake’s extraordinary story. Rich and thoroughly researched, an exciting, well-written account of wartime valour and the protagonist’s qualities shine through’ The Times

‘This is the next book I won’t be able to stop talking about…so, so good!‘ 5 stars (Goodreads reviewer)

‘Readers will be transfixed by this story of a woman who should be a household name’ Library Journal

‘A gripping thriller based on the life of Nancy Wake… Will keep readers turning the pages’ Publishers Weekly

In 1936, foreign correspondent, Nancy Wake, witnesses first-hand the terror of Hitler’s rise in Europe. No sooner has Nancy met, fallen in love with and agreed to marry French industrialist Henri Fiocca, than the Germans invade France and force her to take on her first code name of many. The Gestapo call her the White Mouse for her remarkable ability to evade capture when smuggling Allied soldiers across borders. She becomes Hélène when she leaves France to train in espionage with an elite special forces group in London. Then, when she returns to France, she is the deadly Madame Andrée. But the closer France gets to liberation, the more exposed Nancy – and the people she loves – will become.

Inspired by true wartime events, Code Name Hélène is a gripping and moving story of extraordinary courage, unfaltering resolve, remarkable sacrifice – and enduring love

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#ResenhaMaeLiteratura ⁣ ⁣ Eu AMO livros sobre guerras baseados em fatos reais e por isso quando soube deste lançamento da @PlanetadeLivrosBrasil, solicitei na hora.⁣ ⁣ Libertação traz ingredientes deliciosos, uma heroína destemida, esperta e muito humana e o melhor, real! Nancy Wake realmente existiu e deu um baile nos alemães!⁣ ⁣ Nancy nasceu na Nova Zelândia em 1911 e após viver nos Estados Unidos, mudou-se para França quando casou com o industrial Henri Fiocca. Henri foi seu grande amor e aliado na luta contra o nazismo, fornecendo dinheiro e prestígio para o trabalho da resistência, no qual Nancy estava profundamente infiltrada.⁣ ⁣ Apelidada de Rato Branco, pela sua agilidade e ousadia, Nancy ajudou muitos judeus e outros foragidos de guerra escaparem. Sua cabeça valia muito e ela foi caçada pelos nazistas, que demoraram a perceber que Rato Branco era uma mulher.⁣ ⁣ O livro foi escrito pela dupla de autores, Darby Kealey e Imogen Robertson. Imogen Kealey é o pseudônimo usado pelo casal. A escrita deles é ótima, o texto fluido, fácil e interessante. Fiquei completamente envolvida por esta trama.⁣ ⁣ A trama tem um ótimo ritmo, muita expectativa, aflição, tensão e doses de coragem. Li tensa, mas doida para saber o que aconteceria em seguida.⁣ ⁣ No final do livro, temos uma nota histórica. Nela os autores explicam os fatos reais e as adaptações que fizeram na trama.⁣ ⁣ Uma curiosidade, o livro estará em breve nos cinemas, com a atriz Anne Hathaway no elenco e na produção. Talvez por isso, durante a minha leitura a "minha Nancy" tinha a cara da Anne. Isso acontece também com você?⁣ ⁣ Termino a leitura ansiosa para assistir o filme. Recomendo muito esta leitura inspiradora para quem gosta do tema de guerra e de personagens fortes. Vale a pena. Já leu? Quer ler? Me conta.⁣ ⁣ #maeliteratura⁣⁣⁣ #acreditamosnoslivros⁣⁣⁣ #planetadelivros⁣⁣ #libertação⁣ #ImogenKealey⁣ #livrosobreguerra⁣ #amoler⁣ #espionagem (em São Paulo, Brazil) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHdxSj3pWXK/?igshid=xvagv6gncvq3

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Sinopsis de Libertad:

Marsella, 1943. «Ratón Blanco» es el nombre que la Gestapo ha donado a uno de los miembros de la Resistor más difíciles de atrapar. Lo que la policía secreta alemana no sospecha es que bajo ese seudónimo se esconde una mujer, Nancy Wake. Una mujer con un carácter indomable y un valencia insólito. Una mujer eficaz unido al apego de su vida, Henri Fiocca, un rico patrón francés completamente enamorado de ella que la apoya en su lucha. Cuando su marido es capturado y torturado por los nazis, Nancy debe escapar de Francia. En su empeño por defender al hombre que ama y cambiar el rumbo de la exterminio, superará cualquier obstáculo que se interponga en su camino. En un mundo dominado por los hombres, Nancy Wake se ganará a pulso el respeto de los maquis y liderará las fuerzas de la Resistor francesa en una lucha incansable contra la injusticia y el horror.

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Madame Fiocca by Suzy Henderson

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Madame Fiocca

Suzy Henderson Publication date: December 13th 2019 Genres: Adult, Historical, Young Adult

A must-read gripping adventure based on the true story of Nancy Wake, Gestapo’s most wanted. Soon to be a major feature film.

February 1933: Nancy Wake is a gregarious twenty-year-old looking for adventure. Having fled her unhappy family home in Sydney, she becomes a journalist and is…

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BASED ON THE THRILLING REAL-LIFE STORY OF SOCIALITE SPY NANCY WAKE, comes the newest feat of historical fiction from the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia, featuring the astonishing woman who killed a Nazi with her bare hands and went on to become one of the most decorated women in WWII. Told in interweaving timelines organized around the four code names Nancy used during the war, Code Name Hélène is a spellbinding and moving story of enduring love, remarkable sacrifice and unfaltering resolve that chronicles the true exploits of a woman who deserves to be a household name. It is 1936 and Nancy Wake is an intrepid Australian expat living in Paris who has bluffed her way into a reporting job for Hearst newspaper when she meets the wealthy French industrialist Henri Fiocca. No sooner does Henri sweep Nancy off her feet and convince her to become Mrs. Fiocca than the Germans invade France and she takes yet another name: a code name. As LUCIENNE CARLIER Nancy smuggles people and documents across the border and earns a new nickname from the Gestapo for her remarkable ability to evade capture: THE WHITE MOUSE. With a five million franc bounty on her head, Nancy is forced to escape France and leave Henri behind. When she enters training with the Special Operations Executives in Britain, she is told to use the name HÉLÈNE with her comrades. And finally, with mission in hand, Nancy is airdropped back into France as the deadly MADAM ANDRÉE, where she claims her place as one of the most powerful leaders in the French Resistance, known for her ferocious wit, her signature red lipstick, and her ability to summon weapons straight from the Allied Forces. But no one can protect Nancy if the enemy finds out these four women are one and the same, and the closer to liberation France gets, the more exposed she--and the people she loves--will become.