Odette

One of the Remarkable True Stories of WWII series. The incredible tale of an ordinary housewife who worked undercover as a secret agent in occupied France during World War Two

''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 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.

• | Author: Jerrard Tickell
• | Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
• | Publication Date: May 29, 2008
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780755316816
• | ISBN-10: 0755316819