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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc
Publication date
September 19, 2014
Pages
256
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781445641454
ISBN-10
1445641453
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$16.00
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: In September 2010 the body of Eileen Nearne was found in a flat in Torquay. With no known friends or relatives, a council burial was arranged. A police search of her belongings found wartime French currency and wartime medals. Further investigation revealed that she was one of 40 women sent into France by the SOE, the Special Operations Executive, Churchillâs top secret wartime Âspookâ organisation. Her story and her poignant death as a recluse became an international media sensation. Being fluent in French Eileen, or ÂDidiâ as she liked to be known, was identified early in the war by the SOE as a potential agent. After spending months training as a wireless operator, coding messages for transmission and decoding those received from agents in the field, she was chosen to be sent into occupied France . She underwent paramilitary training and was assigned the codename ÂROSEâ. After working in dangerous conditions in Paris for several months, she was captured, interrogated and tortured. Keeping to her story that she was an unwitting French girl caught up in resistance work, she was transferred to a series of concentration camps in Germany. She made a miraculous escape in early 1945. Eileen had difficulty adjusting to living in post-war Britain. After recovering from a nervous breakdown, she devoted her life to helping others and eventually became a recluse. This is her story.
Editions
Hardcover
from Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc (January 19, 2013)
9781445608389 | details & prices | 256 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.12 lbs | List price $34.95
About: ⢠The first ever biography of Eileen Nearne whose death all alone in a flat in Torquay in 2010 prompted a media sensation.
About: ⢠The first ever biography of Eileen Nearne whose death all alone in a flat in Torquay in 2010 prompted a media sensation.
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
from Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc (September 19, 2014)
9781445641454 | details & prices | 256 pages | List price $16.00
About: In September 2010 the body of Eileen Nearne was found in a flat in Torquay.
About: In September 2010 the body of Eileen Nearne was found in a flat in Torquay.
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