Hello friends! This month's book is D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazies, and Helped Win World War II by Sarah Rose.
Trigger Warning!!!Before reading this book please be aware it contains contains situations and subjects related to: war, sexism, death, anti-Semitism, racism, white supremacy, murder, torture, prison, rape, concentration camps, suicidal ideation, cannibalism, and illness.
"In 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was on the front lines. To 'set Europe ablaze,' in the words of Winston Churchill, the Special Operations Executive (SOE), whose spies were trained in everything from demolition to sharpshooting, was forced to do something unprecedented: recruit women. Thirty-nine answered the call, leaving their lives and families to become saboteurs in France.
In D-Day Girls, Sarah Rose draws on recently declassified files, diaries, and oral histories to tell the trilling story of three of these remarkable women. There's Andree Borrel, a scrappy and streetwise Parisian who blew up power lines with Gestapo hot on her heels; Odette Sansom, an unhappily married suburban mother who saw the SOE as her ticket out of domestic life and into a meaningful adventure; and Lise de Baissac, a fiercely independent member of French colonial high society and the SOE's unflappable 'queen'. Together, they destroyed train lines, ambushed Nazis, plottd prison breaks, and gathered crucial intelligence - laying the groundwork for the D-Day invasion that proved to be the turning point in the war." ---synopsis on the paperback edition of D-Day Girls by Sarah Rose.
We are very excited to read our first historical non-fiction for Shelf Explored Book Club! We're hoping to see a good representation of powerful women and learn their different point of view of WWII. We have not read too many historical non-fiction books so this will be new for us! Happy reading!
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