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<p>[QUOTE="Jon L, post: 4503923, member: 64167"]Yep, that's the one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Peter FitzSimmons book on Nancy Wake ("The White Mouse") is another great book concerning one of the French Resistance's greatest operatives. Beautiful, wealthy, hard drinking, and an absolute bee-otch to the Nazis, Nancy Wake was one of a kind. She even made #1 on the Gestapo's hit list. After the war she was asked if there was anything more she thought she could have done, she replied "kill more Germans". She sold off all the medals she was given postwar because "There was no point in keeping them. I'll probably go to hell and they'd melt anyway."</p><p><br /></p><p>Her obits below give an overview of her adventures:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/08/nancy-wake-obituary" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/08/nancy-wake-obituary" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/08/nancy-wake-obituary</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/nancy-wake-white-mouse-of-world-war-ii-dies-at-98/2011/08/08/gIQABvPT5I_story.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/nancy-wake-white-mouse-of-world-war-ii-dies-at-98/2011/08/08/gIQABvPT5I_story.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/nancy-wake-white-mouse-of-world-war-ii-dies-at-98/2011/08/08/gIQABvPT5I_story.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jon L, post: 4503923, member: 64167"]Yep, that's the one. Peter FitzSimmons book on Nancy Wake ("The White Mouse") is another great book concerning one of the French Resistance's greatest operatives. Beautiful, wealthy, hard drinking, and an absolute bee-otch to the Nazis, Nancy Wake was one of a kind. She even made #1 on the Gestapo's hit list. After the war she was asked if there was anything more she thought she could have done, she replied "kill more Germans". She sold off all the medals she was given postwar because "There was no point in keeping them. I'll probably go to hell and they'd melt anyway." Her obits below give an overview of her adventures: [URL]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/08/nancy-wake-obituary[/URL] [URL]https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/nancy-wake-white-mouse-of-world-war-ii-dies-at-98/2011/08/08/gIQABvPT5I_story.html[/URL][/QUOTE]
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