Agent Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British spy
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, Damien, author
- Publication/Creation:
- New York : PublicAffairs, 2022
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Edition:
- First US edition.
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Additional/Related Title Information
- Full Title:
- Agent Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British spy / Damien Lewis
- Uniform Title:
- Flame of resistance
Subjects/Genre
- Genre:
- Biography
Biographies - Subjects:
- Baker, Josephine,1906-1975
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Spies--France--Biography
African American women dancers--France--Biography
World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--France
World War, 1939-1945--France--African Americans--Biography
World War, 1939-1945--Women--France--Biography
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- A traitor unmasked -- An honourable spy -- From Paris with love -- A most sensational woman -- The darkness descends -- It can't always be caviar -- The enemy at the gates -- The iron resistance -- Stardom, her cloak and her dagger -- The black angel -- Invisible ink and secret steamships -- On the Gestapo hitlist -- Abandon all hope -- Unbreakable -- The twelve apostles -- Dances with death -- Operation Josephine B -- Operation Underworld -- Captured, imprisoned -- The grim reaper calls -- Lighting the torch -- Die another day -- Into the heat and dust -- Liberation day -- A song for Buchenwald -- Epilogue.
- Summary:
- "In Agent Josephine, bestselling author Damien Lewis uncovers this little-known history of the famous singer's life. During the war years, as a member of the French Nurse paratroopers--a cover for her spying work--Baker participated in numerous clandestine activities and emerged as a formidable spy. In turn, she was a hero of the three countries in whose name she served--the US, France, and Britain"--
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- xxvi, 466 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- General Note:
- "Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain in 2022 by Quercus Editions Ltd"--Title page verso.
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9937605885502486
- ISBN:
- 9781541700666
154170066X - OCLC Number:
- 1334421903
- Barcode:
- 010003514749
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