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  1. Books. Nancy Wake: A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine 1912-2011. The number one bestselling biography of our greatest war heroine - over 84,000 copies sold in its first two formats. In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person.

  2. Aug 29, 2019 · Director John Hagen directed the TV drama, Nancy Wake chats to Jesse Mulligan about Nancy Wake's extraordinary life. Nancy Wake was a secret agent during World War Two. She was born in New Zealand, grew up in Australia and moved to France, joined the French Resistance, and earned the title of the most decorated woman of that war.

  3. Educational value. Nancy Wake (1912–2011), aka 'Madame Andrée' and codenamed 'White Mouse' and 'Witch', was the most decorated servicewoman of World War II. She is famed for her courageous undercover activities in occupied France from 1940 to 1943, first as a courier of a French Resistance network and later with an escape network until it ...

  4. May 5, 2021 · Nancy Wake - Gestapo's Most Wanted Resistance Fighter | History DocumentaryWatch 'Operation Valkyrie: The Plot to Kill Hitler' here: https://youtu.be/Z9pD7x-...

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  5. Nancy Grace Augusta Wake ( 30. elokuuta 1912 Wellington, Uusi-Seelanti – 7. elokuuta 2011 Lontoo, Britannia [1] ), lempinimeltään ”Valkoinen hiiri” (eng. ”The White Mouse”), toimi toisen maailmansodan jälkipuoliskolla brittien agenttina. Hänestä tuli Ranskan vastarintaliikkeen Maquis-ryhmien johtohahmo ja eräs liittoutuneiden ...

  6. Aug 9, 2011 · Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, the youngest of six siblings, was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on Aug. 30, 1912. Her father, a journalist, abandoned the family in Sydney. He also sold the family’s ...

  7. Nancy Wake. : Peter FitzSimons. HarperCollins, 2001 - Journalists - 310 pages. In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a naïve journalist, Nancy Wake witnessed a horrific scene of Nazi violence in a Viennese street.