"I don’t see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas. " Nancy Wake I've been anxiously awaiting Ariel Lawhon 's latest book since last year. After reading and enjoying her three previous historical fiction novels, I couldn't wait to get my hands on this one. Let me tell you, I was not disapointed! In this book, Lawhon tells the story of Nancy Wake , a nurse and journalist from New Zealand who came to live in France before World War II. Through her work as a journalist, she had witnessed horrifying acts of violence committed by Nazis. She eventually met and married a Frenchman named Henri Fiocca. When the war broke out, she began working with the French Resistance and eventually had to flee over the Pyrenees mountains into Spain, then to Great Britain where she trained with the Special Operations Executive (SOE). She was then parachuted back into France where she continued working against the Nazis until the end of ...
Thoughts from an Army Wife, Boy Mom, and Book Worm.