Code Name Pauline: Memoirs of a World War II Special Agent
Title | Code Name Pauline: Memoirs of a World War II Special Agent |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2013 |
Authors | Witherington-Cornioley, Pearl, and Kathryn J. Atwood |
Number of Pages | 184 |
Publisher | Chicago Review Press |
City | Chicago |
Abstract | Pearl Witherington Cornioley (1914-2008), one of the most celebrated female World War II resistance fighters, shares her remarkable story in this firsthand account of her experience as a special agent for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). Told through a series of reminiscences--from a difficult childhood spent in the shadow of World War I and her family's harrowing escape from France as the Germans approached in 1940 to her recruitment and training as a special agent and the logistics of parachuting into a remote rural area of occupied France and hiding in a wheat field from enemy fire--each chapter also includes helpful opening remarks to provide context and background on the SOE and the French Resistance. |
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