Pearl Witherington Cornioley,Kathryn J. Atwood
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 reminiscencesâ€”from a difficult childhood spent in the shadow of World War I and her familyâ€™s harrowing escape from Paris 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, later, hiding in a wheat field from enemy fireâ€”each chapter also includes helpful opening remarks to provide context and background on the SOE and the French Resistance. With an annotated list of key figures, an appendixÂ of original unedited interview extractsâ€”including the story of Pearlâ€™s fiancÃ© Henri who escaped a German POW camp to become Pearl's second-in-commandâ€”and fascinating photographs and documents from Pearlâ€™s personal collection, this memoir will captivate World War II buffs of any age.
Nonfiction,History,War,World War II,Biography,Autobiography,Memoir,War,Biography Memoir,Historical,Feminism,Cultural,France
Code Name Pauline: Memoirs of a World War II Special Agent