NATIONAL BESTSELLER β’Β The dramatic, untoldΒ historyΒ of theΒ heroicΒ women recruited by Britainβs elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victoryΒ in World War II
In 1942,Β the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England wasΒ on the front lines. To βset Europe ablaze,β in the words of Winston Churchill, the Special Operations ExecutiveΒ (SOE), whose spies were trained in everything from demolition to sharpshooting, was forced to do something unprecedented: recruit women. Thirty-nine answered the call, leaving their lives and families to become saboteurs in France.
InΒ D-Day Girls, Sarah Rose draws on recently deΒclassified files, diaries, and oral histories to tell the thrilling story of three of these remarkable women. Thereβs AndrΓ©e Borrel, a scrappy and streetwise Parisian who blew up power lines with the Gestapo hot on her heels; Odette Sansom, an unhappily married suburban mother who saw the SOE as her ticket out of domestic life and into a meaningful adventure; and Lise de Baissac, a fiercely independent member of French colonial high society and the SOEβs unflapΒpable βqueen.β Together, they destroyed train lines, ambushed Nazis, plotted prison breaks, and gathered crucial intelligenceβlaying the groundwork for the D-Day invasion that proved to be the turning point in the war.
Rigorously researched and written with razor-sharp wit,Β D-Day GirlsΒ is an inspiring story for our own moment of resistance: a reminder of what courageβand the energy of politically animated womenβcan accomplish when the stakes seem incalculably high.
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