Agent Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British spy /
Lewis, Damien,
Agent Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British spy / Damien Lewis. - First US edition. - xxvi, 466 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain in 2022 by Quercus Editions Ltd.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-452) and index.
A traitor unmasked -- An honourable spy -- From Paris with love -- A most sensational woman -- The darkness descends -- It can't always be caviar -- The enemy at the gates -- The iron resistance -- Stardom, her cloak and her dagger -- The black angel -- Invisible ink and secret steamships -- On the Gestapo hitlist -- Abandon all hope -- Unbreakable -- The twelve apostles -- Dances with death -- Operation Josephine B -- Operation Underworld -- Captured, imprisoned -- The grim reaper calls -- Lighting the torch -- Die another day -- Into the heat and dust -- Liberation day -- A song for Buchenwald -- Epilogue.
"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"--
9781541700666 154170066X
2022934998
Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975.
Women spies--Great Britain--Biography.
African American women dancers--France--Biography.
World War, 1939-1945--African Americans--France--Biography.
World War, 1939-1945--Women--France--Biography.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements.
Biographies.
Agent Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British spy / Damien Lewis. - First US edition. - xxvi, 466 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain in 2022 by Quercus Editions Ltd.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-452) and index.
A traitor unmasked -- An honourable spy -- From Paris with love -- A most sensational woman -- The darkness descends -- It can't always be caviar -- The enemy at the gates -- The iron resistance -- Stardom, her cloak and her dagger -- The black angel -- Invisible ink and secret steamships -- On the Gestapo hitlist -- Abandon all hope -- Unbreakable -- The twelve apostles -- Dances with death -- Operation Josephine B -- Operation Underworld -- Captured, imprisoned -- The grim reaper calls -- Lighting the torch -- Die another day -- Into the heat and dust -- Liberation day -- A song for Buchenwald -- Epilogue.
"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"--
9781541700666 154170066X
2022934998
Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975.
Women spies--Great Britain--Biography.
African American women dancers--France--Biography.
World War, 1939-1945--African Americans--France--Biography.
World War, 1939-1945--Women--France--Biography.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements.
Biographies.