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toastedmeat_ t1_iursrw6 wrote

I’ve recently been super into books about the female spies of ww2, and I have several recommendations!

Odette by Jerrard Tickell

  • the biography of a French mother who served as a courier in Nazi-occupied France and survived interrogation and imprisonment in Ravensbrück concentration camp.

D-Day Girls by Sarah Rose

  • follows several women as they organize networks of spies and agents behind enemy lines in France, and describes their contribution to the success of D-Day.

A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell

-a biography of Virginia Hall, American spy with a wooden leg who became the most feared allied agent in France.

Some more women’s history recs:

-The Radium Girls by Kate Moore

-The Woman they could not Silence, also by Kate Moore

-A Game of Birds and Wolves by Simon Parkin

-A House in the Mountains by Caroline Moorehead

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ColdCaseKim t1_iusbha1 wrote

Radium Girls was harrowing. A 95-year-old relative borrowed it and was flabbergasted: “I never knew any if this stuff!” Neither did I.

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