The Autobiography of the Woman the Gestapo Called The White Mouse

Pan Australia, 1994

The Gestapo called her the White Mouse. Nancy Wake, an Australian who became one of the most highly decorated women of WW2, here tells her own story. After living and working in Paris in the 1930s, Nancy married a wealthy Frenchman and settled in Marseilles. Her idyllic new life was ended by WW2 and her work with an escape-route network for Allied soldiers. Eventually Nancy had to escape from France herself to avoid capture by the Gestapo. In the UK, she trained with the SOE as a secret agent and saboteur before parachuting back into France. Nancy became a leading figure in the Maquis of the Auvergne district, in charge of finance and obtaining arms, and helping to forge the Maquis into a superb fighting force....