InĀ D-Day Girls, Sarah Rose draws on recently deĀclassified files, diaries, and oral histories to tell the thrilling story of three of these remarkable women. Thereās AndrĆ©e Borrel, a scrappy and streetwise Parisian who blew up power lines with the 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 SOEās unflapĀpable āqueen.ā Together, they destroyed train lines, ambushed Nazis, plotted prison breaks, and gathered crucial intelligenceālaying the groundwork for the D-Day invasion that proved to be the turning point in the war.
Rigorously researched and written with razor-sharp wit,Ā D-Day GirlsĀ is an inspiring story for our own moment of resistance: a reminder of what courageāand the energy of politically animated womenācan accomplish when the stakes seem incalculably high.
