Description
Title: Odette: The story of a British agent
Author: Tickell, Jerrard
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 19th Edition
Publication Date: 1982
ISBN: N/A
Cover: Hard Cover without Dust Jacket – 334 pages
Comments: It tells the story of Odette Sansom, a Frenchwoman who worked as a spy for the British in occupied France during the war and who was eventually captured and imprisoned. The story is interesting and told with only a few punches pulled to spare the reader – Gestapo interrogation techniques are spoken about (for example) and this was obviously one very brave woman.
The book starts with a basic biography of Odette and then moves to her early war experiences as a civilian getting out to the country as so many did due to the German bombing. It then goes through her recruitment and training and the various false starts her insertion to occupied Europe she experienced.
Once past that we then get a pretty chronological discussion of her activities along with some others that she worked with and then the book moves forward to her capture and her experiences in prison and then finally the rather strange tale of her being taken to US lines by her erstwhile gaolers.
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