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How France’s Top Woman Spy Escaped from the Nazis—Part 2

How France’s Top Woman Spy Escaped from the Nazis—Part 2

On Boulevard des Poilus — the sun-dappled, tree-lined street in Aix-en Provence where the former Miollis army barracks is located — lycée…
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Lynne Olson
How France’s Top Woman Spy Escaped from the Nazis—Part 1

How France’s Top Woman Spy Escaped from the Nazis—Part 1

On a hot, sultry night in July 1944, the head of the most important Allied spy network in occupied France lay on a jail-cell cot and…
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Lynne Olson
Diane Nash, Forgotten Civil Rights Hero

Diane Nash, Forgotten Civil Rights Hero

Largely forgotten today, Diane Nash, a former beauty queen with the delicate features of a porcelain doll, was arguably the most daring…
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Lynne Olson
Duchess of Atholl, Outspoken Critic of Chamberlain, Self-Proclaimed Crusader Against International…

Duchess of Atholl, Outspoken Critic of Chamberlain, Self-Proclaimed Crusader Against International…

In May 1940, thanks to a group of anti-appeasement British members of Parliament, Neville Chamberlain was ousted as prime minister and…
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Lynne Olson
Queen Wilhelmina, Heart and Soul of the Dutch Resistance

Queen Wilhelmina, Heart and Soul of the Dutch Resistance

As ruler of the Netherlands for more than fifty years, Queen Wilhelmina was hardly an unknown figure in her country or the world. But the…
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Lynne Olson
Andrée de Jongh, Top Resistance Leader and Creator of the Largest Escape Line in Occupied Europe

Andrée de Jongh, Top Resistance Leader and Creator of the Largest Escape Line in Occupied Europe

When Belgium was occupied by Germany in May 1940, the father of Andrée de Jongh burst into tears. His daughter, a 23-year-old graphic…
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Lynne Olson
Jeannie Rousseau, World War II Spy and a Leader of the French Resistance

Jeannie Rousseau, World War II Spy and a Leader of the French Resistance

When the Nazis occupied France in 1940, 21-year-old Jeannie Rousseau had just graduated at the top of her class from Paris’s most elite…
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Lynne Olson
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