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Agent Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British spy / Damien Lewis.
Van Pelt Library GV1785.B3 L48 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, Damien, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women spies--Great Britain--Biography.
- Women spies.
- African American women dancers--France--Biography.
- African American women dancers.
- World War, 1939-1945--France--African Americans--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Women--France--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements.
- Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975.
- Baker, Josephine.
- Genre:
- Biography.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 466 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First US edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : PublicAffairs, 2022.
- Summary:
- "In Agent Josephine, bestselling author Damien Lewis uncovers this little-known history of the famous singer's life. During the war years, as a member of the French Nurse paratroopers--a cover for her spying work--Baker participated in numerous clandestine activities and emerged as a formidable spy. In turn, she was a hero of the three countries in whose name she served--the US, France, and Britain"-- Provided by publisher
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. One A Traitor Unmasked
- ch. Two An Honourable Spy
- ch. Three From Paris With Love
- ch. Four A Most Sensational Woman
- ch. Five The Darkness Descends
- ch. Six It Can't Always Be Caviar
- ch. Seven The Enemy At The Gates
- ch. Eight The Iron Resistance
- ch. Nine Stardom, Her Cloak And Her Dagger
- ch. Ten The Black Angel
- ch. Eleven Invisible Ink And Secret Steamships
- ch. Twelve On The Gestapo Hitlist
- ch. Thirteen Abandon All Hope
- ch. Fourteen Unbreakable
- ch. Fifteen The Twelve Apostles
- ch. Sixteen Dances With Death
- ch. Seventeen Operation Josephine B
- ch. Eighteen Operation Underworld
- ch. Nineteen Captured, Imprisoned
- ch. Twenty The Grim Reaper Calls
- ch. Twenty-one Lighting The Torch
- ch. Twenty-two Die Another Day
- ch. Twenty-three Into The Heat And Dust
- ch. Twenty-four Liberation Day
- ch. Twenty-five A Song For Buchenwald.
- Notes:
- Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain in 2022 by Quercus Editions Ltd.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-452) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781541700666
- 154170066X
- OCLC:
- 1334421903
- Publisher Number:
- 99991216254
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