She Landed By Moonlight: The Story of Secret Agent Pearl Witherington: the 'real Charlotte Gray'. Signed by the Author

Seymour-Jones, Carole

ISBN 10: 1444724606 ISBN 13: 9781444724608

Verlag: London. Hodder & Stoughton, 2013

Sprache: Englisch

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London. Hodder & Stoughton. 2013. First Edition. Second printing. Hard Cover. Scarlet boards with blind stamped red titles to the spine. Maps in the prelims. Glossy monochrome photographs in the text. Signed by the author to the title page with dedication. Condition of book and jacket is extremely near to fine; minor shelf wear along top edge and head of spine; minimal. On the night of the 22 September 1943, Pearl Witherington, a twenty-nine-year-old British secretary and agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), was parachuted from a Halifax bomber into Occupied France. Her wartime record is unique and heroic. As the only woman agent in the history of SOEs in France to have run a network, she became a fearless and legendary guerrilla leader organising, arming and training 3,800 Resistance fighters. Probably the greatest female organiser of armed maquisards in France, the woman whom her young troops called 'Ma M�re', Pearl lit the fires of Resistance in Central France so that Churchill's famous order to 'set Europe ablaze', which had brought SOE into being, finally came to pass.

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Titel

She Landed By Moonlight: The Story of Secret Agent Pearl Witherington: the 'real Charlotte Gray'. Signed by the Author

Verlag

London. Hodder & Stoughton

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

1444724606

ISBN-13

9781444724608

Einband

Hardcover

Auflage

1st Edition

Zustand

Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags

Fine

Signiert

Signed by Author(s)

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On the night of the 22 September 1943 Pearl Witherington, a twenty-nine-year-old British secretary and agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), was parachuted from a Halifax bomber into Occupied France. Like Sebastian Faulks' heroine, Charlotte Gray, Pearl had a dual mission: in her case, to fight for her beloved, broken France and to find her lost love. Pearl's lover was a Parisian parfumier turned soldier, Henri Cornioley, who had been taken prisoner while serving in the French Logistics Corps and subsequently escaped from his German POW camp.

Agent Pearl Witherington's wartime record is unique and heroic. As the only woman agent in the history of SOEs in France to have run a network, she became a fearless and legendary guerrilla leader organising, arming and training 3,800 Resistance fighters. Probably the greatest female organiser of armed maquisards in France, the woman whom her young troops called 'Ma M�re', Pearl lit the fires of Resistance in Central France so that Churchill's famous order to 'set Europe ablaze', which had brought SOE into being, finally came to pass.

Pearl's story takes us from her harsh, impoverished childhood in Paris, to the lonely forests and farmhouses of the Loir-et-Cher where she would become a true 'warrior queen'.

Shortly before Pearl's death in 2008, the Queen presented her with a CBE in Paris. While male agents and Special Force Jedburghs received the DSO or Military Cross, an ungrateful country had forgotten Pearl. She had been offered a civilian decoration in 1945 which she refused, saying 'There was nothing civil about what I did.' But what pleased her most was to receive her Parachute Wings, for which she had waited over 60 years. Two RAF officers travelled to her old people's home and she was finally able to pin the coveted wings on her lapel. Pearl died in February 2008 aged 93.

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Carole Seymour-Jones was born in Wales. She was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize for her biography of Vivienne Eliot, first wife of TS Eliot. Her most recent biography of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, A Dangerous Liaison, received widespread acclaim. Carole is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Surrey, and former Deputy President and chair of the Writers in Prison Committee of English PEN, the writers' charity.

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