Odette - Hardcover

Tickell, Jerrard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750529210 ISBN 13: 9780750529211

Publisher: Magna Large Print Books, 2008

Synopsis

'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, desolate at the plight of her native and adopted countries, 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.

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Review

'A wonderful introduction to the Second World War' (Max Hastings)

'Her optimism was inspirational' (Irish News (Belfast))

'Gripping... For all their pain, these are stories of hope' (The Times)

Book Description

A true World War Two story of an ordinary housewife who worked undercover as a secret agent in occupied France.

Edition details

• Publisher: Magna Large Print Books
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750529210
• ISBN 13: 9780750529211
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432