Churchill's Secret Messenger

This one I listened to. I normally read.

A story of one young woman drafted into Churchill’s overseas spy network, aiding the French Resistance behind enemy lines and working to liberate Nazi-occupied Paris. London, 1941: Due to Rose Teasdale’s fluency in French, she is recruited for the Special Operations Executive, a secret British organization that conducts espionage in Nazi-occupied Europe.

Rose parachutes into France with a new codename: Dragonfly. Posing as a cosmetics saleswoman in Paris, she ferries messages to and from the Resistance. (Of course, typically in fiction,) she falls for a French Resistance fighter who has also dedicated… show more.

Rose Teasdale is a young British woman in Churchill’s typing pool and Lazare Aron is a Jewish French Resistance fighter. They make for great company in this World War II spy novel.

When Rose is selected for the Special Operations Executive, a secret British espionage group, she is literally dropped behind enemy lines and into Lazare’s arms. Hlad is a meticulous researcher and elegantly incorporates the true history of Operation Jericho—an RAF bombing on a Nazi-held French prison near the end of the War—into a compelling love story.

I listened to the audiobook version of Churchill’s Secret Messenger while walking… show more.