Bibliograph

Carve her name with pride, the story of Violette Szabo, R.J. Minney

Type

Label

Carve her name with pride, the story of Violette Szabo, R.J. Minney

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Carve her name with pride

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

R.J. Minney

Sub title

the story of Violette Szabo

Summary

The thrilling and inspiring true story of Violette Szabo, the fearless British cloak-and-dagger agent who infiltrated Nazi occupied France. Switchboard operator and volunteer for the Women's Land Army, Violette Szabo was only twenty-two years old when her husband, Etienne, a captain in the French Foreign Legion, died at El Alamein. His death only made the resilient young widow more determined than ever to join England's war effort in World War II. To Violette's surprise, opportunity came at the request of Britain's Special Organization Executive. The purpose of the SOE was to conduct sabotage and espionage, and to aide local resistance movements in occupied Europe. Trained in secret in the Scottish Highlands, Violette became an expert in fieldcraft, covert navigation, and weapons and demolition. Then, on June 7, 1944, Szabo parachuted into Limoges. Her task was to coordinate the work of the French Resistance in the first days after D-Day. Violette Szabo was about to make history

Target audience

adult

Classification